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plenty of pointed discourse forums out there. I agree that the search engines may be the problem. You have to know where to look.
Was this article written 15 years ago? Because this is anything but a new occurrence.
No, enshittified search engines are only catalogging those because they're in the AI bed with them.
Your Favorite Forum still rules.
Then my so called "friend" calls me a manbaby for freaking out about this. They are going to be policing the entire internet soon!
That's why we have to strengthen the fediverse!
Especially considering reddit is publicly traded and discord is having an IPO soon, and reddit has gone full 1984 censorship.
Internet forums will come back when AI overtakes Reddit and Discord goes awry because they go public.
Are you pretending that nothing has ever been tried? The Fediverse, that's what is being done about it. That's why most of us are here. Also, why narrow it down to Reddit and Discord? Articles like these are garbage because it's very tone deaf.
Likes and Upvotes have long, long existed before. They started on forums, it was just the dawning of MySpace and Facebook and Reddit are what popularized them and made it standard.
Fucking hell, Forums also still exist, they just aren't getting activity. I hate this fucking article now.
My first real social experience on the internet was on php forums. There are still such forums around and I am still part of a few.
Maybe Lemmy is a 2020s version of phpBB (the forum software, which is open source like Lemmy is). Lemmy and phpBB can both be hosted by anyone, but of course the interesting thing about Lemmy is that Lemmy servers can share their content with each other.
Use Lemmy, Signal, the rest. What is the problem? Delete Reddit and Discord accounts. Done.
I STRONGLY recommend just going out looking for whatever forums you can find that are still active.
I've actually been going out of my way to look up new forums to use since the Reddit API controversy. Finding them can sometimes be a pain in the ass because search engines suck nowadays, but I've found a few I hang around on. I spend way more time on them than I do Lemmy.
The Reddit style voting/threading is superior of forums though.
An unfederated Lemmy instance for example would actually be really good.
That not all, search engine too are killing internet. They become worst ad time pass. You can't even found again some piece of info which is still here on a forum or something. Google prefer to send you to a reddit which doesn't answer you question than on a forum which has the specific answer and that you found some years ago. It fell like search engine are purposely killing old plateforme even if they are still up.
I hate that Discord is being used as a forum replacement because it’s fucking terrible for it. There’s pretty much no way to collate and archive information in a way that is actually useful.