aquovie

Old fashioned forums are old fashioned. Circular logic but there’s a lot holding them back.

  • Create a new account for every single niche forum? No thanks. We need a federated solution.
    • Lemmy/Piefed/etc is almost there
  • Antiquated restrictions (e.g. Log in to view images)
  • Antiquated UI - People want emojis, reactions, rich media, etc
  • PHP paid the bills once upon a time but now it’s hard to get anyone excited to make big new features for forum software
Mar 17 at 1:00pmWeb
Show threadgdog05Mar 17
You’ve got some points but I would argue that antiquated UI will be what saves the Internet. Keeping out bots and AI scrapers with good old fashioned phpBBS systems that have been around for twenty years will be our clean data as we build systems outside of AI and the techbro properties.
Show threadother_catMar 17
I’ve also always liked how old school forums are structured. Nice, neat categories and most active/recent stuff on top.
Show threadaquovieMar 17
I don’t see how web 1.0 style sites are resistant to AI or bots. It’s kind of the opposite. Bots/AI are really good at pure text stuff.
Show threadgdog05Mar 18
Because they block access without signing up.
Show threadcdf12345Mar 17

How hard would it be to create an open source identity token that would allow user authentication on any forum or site that will accept it?

Something with a public/private encryption system to authenticate users without the content needing to be federated.

Show threadaquovieMar 17

You might be thinking of the original OpenID system. Instead of the OAuth2 thing we have now with OIDC (e.g. “Login with Google”), OpenID Connect didn’t require the site to be configured in advance with the auth provider. You just gave it your email address and off you went.

OIDC is generally superior security-wise but it’s held back by each site to establish a relationship with the upstream site.