I kinda miss forums, TBH. The paged, linear format wasn't great, but the decentralization was excellent.
Hopefully we're bringing them back right here, with Lemmy allowing shit like HexBear to get us away from corporate Reddit, at least.
Other "social media" where there aren't topical communities and they're really just big conglomerations of linked users with no structure...I have less confidence they will ever not be a cancerous blight on the Web again.
eh in practice it just meant threads often became dominated by a couple of people replying back and forth. Any tangents or side discussions made threads difficult or impossible to follow. The forum model only works if you want threads to be singularly focused on one idea like stackoverflow. The reddit model is much better for casual discussion and using the op as a starting point to branch off from.
I suppose that's fair too. Fortunately, decentralization also allows for a diverse range of solutions, so that not everyone is stuck with the same model of presentation, organization, or moderation.
I kinda miss forums, TBH. The paged, linear format wasn't great, but the decentralization was excellent.
Hopefully we're bringing them back right here, with Lemmy allowing shit like HexBear to get us away from corporate Reddit, at least.
Other "social media" where there aren't topical communities and they're really just big conglomerations of linked users with no structure...I have less confidence they will ever not be a cancerous blight on the Web again.
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eh in practice it just meant threads often became dominated by a couple of people replying back and forth. Any tangents or side discussions made threads difficult or impossible to follow. The forum model only works if you want threads to be singularly focused on one idea like stackoverflow. The reddit model is much better for casual discussion and using the op as a starting point to branch off from.
I suppose that's fair too. Fortunately, decentralization also allows for a diverse range of solutions, so that not everyone is stuck with the same model of presentation, organization, or moderation.