The forum-like structure is also helping a ton, I think I'm just not a fan of the micro-blogging format lol.
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Yeah that is a really tricky thing, even if those communities decide to go "we're moving to ______", they will inevitably be leaving behind a lot of their userbase, and be giving up a large amount of SEO and discoverability. The large number of users is what gave reddit its value, so I can only hope that groups that might disperse find a central place again. I definitely don't envy the position this leaves moderators in rn.
This is great to hear! Unfortunately the reddit exodus will likely splinter a bunch of niche communities, but it will definitely be for the best. I'm all down for the "de-consolidation" of the internet!
Hi, thanks for making this instance and post! I think one of the main things that prevented me from grasping the fediverse when I tried mastodon out earlier was not knowing about the common Activitypub protocol. The e-mail analogy that was being used didn't quite click for me, so I'm happy to have a much better understanding for this go around! Here's to greener pastures!
Absolutely - discord is probably one of the worst choices to host a "discussion board" type page for those reasons. They are well on the path of enshittification too with all the bloaty unnecessary features they've added over the years.