There have been multiple accounts created with the sole purpose of posting advertisement posts or replies containing unsolicited advertising.

Accounts which solely post advertisements, or persistently post them may be terminated.

mdd ,

Forums are alive and well when looking for car info. Whenever I get a different car I look for communities with the most activity and that is usually a forum.

The one exception I can think of (proving the post to be true) is the first generation Tundra (2000-2007). The FB group had more current news than the forums and I managed to get banned (first time ever).

DrowningInteger ,

Yeah I’m on OdyClub probably every other day and there’s always new posts coming in

fritobugger2017 ,

HiFi folks and coffee folks have active forums outside of reddit and discord.

someguy3 ,

Every now and then I get a forum as a search result and they’re just so clunky. Replies are spaced out too much, no chains, everyone has a long winded signature phrase. I’m glad it went to this kind of format.

GenosseFlosse ,

Forums existed when everyone had a 1024x800 computer monitor on his desk, before mobile Webbrowsers where a thing. The layout did make sense at the time.

someguy3 ,

Nah even on desktop it’s clunky.

HelixDab2 ,

I dunno, when you’re talking about really specialized niches, there are still plenty of forums. Like, 600rr.net; it’s dedicated to nothing but Honda CBR600RR motorcycles. If you have a problem with a 600RR, the answer is probably there, and the forum is still ticking along because it’s just too hard to find those super-niche answers on Reddit. Want gun content with a healthy dose of homo/transphobia and christian nationalism? AR15.com has you covered. Want to talk about the minutiae of reloading and be autistically-focused on long-range accuracy? SnipersHide.com is your place. (They’re a bit fuddy though.)

BigBananaDealer ,
@BigBananaDealer@lemm.ee avatar

if anyone here used to go on kongregate a lot, go check it out now. it is depressing. they dont even have chat rooms anymore

anon_8675309 ,

Only thing on Reddit is AI bots.

AbidanYre ,

Have you been to Facebook lately? It’s like 90% AI spam of “why don’t pictures like this trend” with some body horror Jesus.

CosmoNova ,

It‘s really annoying how searching anything online becomes harder by the day because of it and AI is not helping with it either.

drunkpostdisaster ,

You have to go to some pretty toxic plaices if you really want to experience old internet.

dhork ,

I’m particularly concerned about companies who have effectively outsourced their tech support to Social Media.

I am a Google Fi subscriber, and their customer support is so abysmal that a Google employee started up a “Reddit Request” system for Redditors to use to escalate support requests.

When I quit Reddit in a huff over the APIcalypse, the main thing that led me to not delete my account was the notion that if I ever had issues with Fi, and didn’t have an active Reddit account with sufficient karma to be believed, my issue may never get enough attention to be fixed.

DJDarren ,

Like many others who no longer use Twitter or Facebook, one of the biggest impacts to me is suddenly not having a reasonably proactive way to contact companies for support. It’s amazing how many companies have offloaded their support staff to half a dozen overworked social media operators. Try phoning and you’ll get “busier than usual” phone lines, and if you can even find an email address it’ll auto-reply to say that it’s no longer monitored.

It’s a shit show.

stealth_cookies ,

Seriously, I had an issue with Uber awhile ago and their support was completely unhelpful until I contacted them on Twitter and an employee finally looked at my issue and confirmed I was right instead of giving me bullshit answers.

This is literally the only reason I haven’t deleted my account there is for situations like that.

AbidanYre ,

At a certain point that “unusual call volume” is just the standard call volume. They just don’t want to hire more support folks.

Aeri ,
@Aeri@lemmy.world avatar

I got banned for something really stupid and they denied my appeal so now I’m kinda just fucked for a lot of stuff, that is too much power for one site to have.

FWIW All I said was “I should be allowed to punch nazis” and I’ve seen way worse things than that said and not actioned on by reddit. (Even when reported)

There are entire communities that “glorify violence” that they do nothing about.

expatriado ,

i miss the specialized topic forums, the only downside was I needed to create a separate account for each website

0x0 ,

Use a password manager, you should.

cyberpunk007 ,

I think they mean SSO. While not as privacy friendly, SSO means you use one set of creds for multiple places.

PlasticExistence ,

Talk like Yoda, you do

HexesofVexes ,
  1. Make it too big to fail
  2. Wait for the fall while enshittifying
  3. Cash in on the bail out
  4. Go to 2
PriorityMotif ,
@PriorityMotif@lemmy.world avatar

Neons.org

dreikelvin ,

smiles in lemmy

helenslunch ,
@helenslunch@feddit.nl avatar

I used to think it was great that I could find forums for so many different things in one place. Now I regret it.

paraphrand ,

That’s how they git ya.

SorteKanin ,
@SorteKanin@feddit.dk avatar

Unless that “one place” is an open, federated standard that allows anyone to participate with their own self-hosted server - i.e. “one place” = the fediverse, then it’s fine!

_number8_ ,

it seemed truly cozy and community-based for the first decade or so. you could buy gold to directly pay for servers and that was it, no greedy monetization or shittification. then awards came out with the same transparency, and it was fun to reward people for good posts (i gave gold partially to bookmark excellent comments for myself, as well). then spez got into coke (probably, i dunno, or hit his head very hard on something) and we have modern day reddit, a trash heap. i like how they deleted all the old awards and gold records, pure spit in the face to anyone that still believed in anything they were doing.

Smokeless7048 ,

I just found that Runescape shut down its forums, replacing it with a discord.

Look, i love my clans discord, and my discord with friends, but one for a game like that is nearly unusable.

NOPper ,

Aww shit.

ryannathans ,

We have a forum at 2009scape.org

rwhitisissle ,

And both of those things SUUUUUCK.

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