• AdmiralShat@programming.dev
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    1 year ago

    I honestly just wish the internet would go back to individual forums. Lemmy is great for a reddit alternative, but I think old school forums were just better overall

    I know forums still exist, obviously, but they’re kind of shitty right now.

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        1 year ago

        Forums worked really elegantly when you had an active userbase of maybe a couple of dozen people a day.

        Megaforums… not so much.

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      1 year ago

      Reddit SEO captured them. They got shitty because they stopped growing, and when a community stops growing, it decays. And yes. They’re absolutely better

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      1 year ago

      I believe that most of the things people do, or try to do, on reddit (and therefore reddit alternatives) just aren’t appropriate for how the site is structured. Reddit is a ‘link aggregator’, that’s what it was designed for. People post links to content.

      So it’s no surprise that forums are a better option, structurally, for a ton of communities.

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      1 year ago

      NodeBB and other forum software have added activityPub integration on their dev roadmaps, so you might see it become a thing again. Personally I don’t want to create a new forum account for every thing I’m interested in.