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JackbyDev ,

Lemmy!

pyrflie ,

Never heard of it. Can’t be too big.

CptInsane0 ,

The Something Awful Forums still exist, and I go there a lot more than I go here or Reddit these days.

JargonWagon ,

I’ve been going more often lately. I do hate having to catch up on 600 pages that’s been discussed over the past 8 years though.

CptInsane0 ,

Yeah that part is annoying. I have to make myself not read every single comment. I have a browser extension that helps organize that a bit.

cumskin_genocide ,

Mods all over the Internet killed forums with their bullshit. The users too. You can’t tame the mob and the users drag their shit on the carpet like a dog doing the scuttle.

Take a look at the shit show of the Neogaf/Resetera split as an example.

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.

afraid_of_zombies ,

Don’t worry, the US government is hard at work banning social media. Wouldn’t want people to expressing ideas.

BearOfaTime ,

Don’t worry, the US government is all governments are hard at work banning social media. Wouldn’t want people to expressing ideas.

FTFY.

afraid_of_zombies ,

The US is breaking Tik Tok and Saudia Arabia broke Twitter. I wonder who will take down reddit?

originalucifer ,
@originalucifer@moist.catsweat.com avatar

you spelled 'non-federating internet forums' wrong

nondescripthandle , (edited )

There was a while where as a fighting game player the best way to learn obscure tech or situational high damage combos was to sift through discords looking for info and it was BALLS. Lately I feel like everyone more committed to the fan wikis and maybe twitter for that stuff but oh man.

markon ,

Yeah everyone like “AI content flood oh noooo, AI AI AI” yet very few mention this much much bigger issue of centralized algorithmically controlled walled gardens where everyone is. That’s kinda like WeChat in China. It is hard to have real democracy or freedom of information (or privacy of any sort) when only a few big corporations have the social networks all locked down. The bad thing is because of the social network effect it’s extremely hard to get people to switch even if the alternatives are even better! So much momentum. We need to find out a way to be able to help distribute users because the software isn’t the problem anymore and neither is infrastructure or any of the other stuff that is given the big guys advantage really. The biggest problem aside from the social network effect is monetization I suppose. Still, it’s hard to even start any kind of method of monetization for alternative platforms or decentralized platforms when you can’t get anybody to switch in the first place or can’t get critical mass.

BrightCandle ,

I feel like we need a better model. Reddits/Lemmys algorithm makes long conversations impossible and forums make long conversations dominate and this causes a lot of additional disruption. There has to be a design that meets a middle ground that can take over which better represents both the ephemeral nature of news and article discussion while also supporting a number of long standing more detailed discussions which expel low effort content.

ArcaneSlime ,

I’ve been complaining about this for years now.

LukyJay ,

Thanks for your contribution.

ArcaneSlime ,

You’re welcome!

thorbot ,

No it isn’t. Forums are cesspools.

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.

jvw ,

Ha – one of my favorite hobbies has an active listserv. They also apparently have a FB group but it’s not as active nor as helpful.

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.

limelight79 ,

I run an internet forum for a very specific topic. I have to manually register people, because before I did that, spammers would come in and crap all over everything. (Fortunately it’s not a very popular topic, so I only have to register new accounts a few times each month.) I run the forum on my own dime, no advertising or anything, as a side hobby.

There’s also a very active Facebook group. The Facebook group is great for general conversation, but often when a technical question comes up, please just link to the forum where the info is stored. Searching in Facebook is terrible, and what happens if Facebook decides to block access to history for some reason? (Not that they necessarily would, but I’ve seen it happen many times. Remember when Photobucket blocked access to old pictures unless you had a paid account? We lost a bunch of useful pictures on the forum when that happened.)

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