dynomight> once there were forums
> then reddit ate all the forums
> then reddit became crap
> now there are no more forums
> oooookkk?
> then reddit ate all the forums
> then reddit became crap
> now there are no more forums
> oooookkk?
i'm genuinely angry about this because I think fragmented forums or subreddits are MUCH MUCH MUCH better than microblogging. but they're all dead and they're never coming back.
Brian Marick@dynomight I wish I knew why blogs and RSS fizzled out. “Google killed it all by killing one product” seems weak.
@marick I don't care what anyone says, blogs + RSS were THE WAY. I still use RSS for everything, though I feel like the day substack kills their RSS feeds must be coming...
@dynomight Grow old along with me!
The best is yet to be,
[…]
Then, welcome each cancellation of an RSS feed
That turns earth's smoothness rough,
https://poets.org/poem/rabbi-ben-ezra
There seems to be a bit of an upsurge in RSS readers. I’ve been migrating from the venerable NetNewsWire to the recent Current, whose UX is working for me (though it’s mobile-first, so keyboard control tends to lag behind).
Salah Adawi@dynomight I used to love niche forums about specific flash game devs etc.
Even though those communities still exist in reddit/discord it just doesn't feel the same anymore
Aunty@dynomight don't worry, now we have technical support discord servers