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Reddit / lemmy vs Old internet forums (lemm.ee)

submitted 1 year ago by saltynuts420@lemm.ee to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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Are sites like lemmy , reddit and discord the true successors to the old internet forums of the 2000s . or were the forums superior to todays reddit , lemmy or discord

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[–] schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 1 year ago

As a general rule, I think the things that tend to happen on each kind of Internet platform with user-generated content are mainly the result of how that platform is structured: which posts are shown to whom under what conditions, etc. These are just some examples of this phenomenon.