viJul 22, 2023
Part of me hopes that with #reddit going downhill, we'll see a revival of old school #forums, because I miss the tighter communities there. But the other part of me remembers how absurd and intense the flame wars and fights got in such tight communities, and I think maybe that's not a great idea.
Show threadviJul 22, 2023
Regardless, *something* needs to replace Reddit, and it shouldn't be another centralized system, and it definitely shouldn't be unsearchable Discord threads. But I'm also not convinced the fediverse model works for something like forums, so idk
Show threadCassandra
@presbyterian I feel like kbin and lemmy have potential but I also feel like I’m not really taking full advantage of them because I’m just kind of burnt out?
Jul 22, 2023 at 11:43pmRadiant
Show threadviJul 23, 2023
@Sadsquatch I understand the burnout, and tbh, I'm not super convinced about the potential of those sites. I think that they make it way to easy to fracture communities, and it's kinda built in to the system. I don't think the entire system should be centralized (like reddit), but I think it's useful for each community to have a single canonical instance, like forums did
Show threadCassandraJul 23, 2023
@presbyterian Yeah, I like kbin (& the lemmy content I see there) but I just don’t know that I’m going to get everything I liked about reddit in one place anymore, and maybe that’s good, but it’s also kind of overwhelming/enervating