this post was submitted on 05 Oct 2023
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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.
I can't agree with you, forums were so clunky
Forums worked really elegantly when you had an active userbase of maybe a couple of dozen people a day.
Megaforums... not so much.
Yeah there's way too many people online for that type of structure to work anymore
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
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.
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.