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@[email protected] to [email protected]English • 1 year ago

Internet forums are disappearing because now it's all Reddit and Discord. And that's worrying.

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Internet forums are disappearing because now it's all Reddit and Discord. And that's worrying.

www.xataka.com

@[email protected] to [email protected]English • 1 year ago
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Los foros de internet están desapareciendo porque ahora todo es Reddit y Discord. Y eso es preocupante
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Hubo un tiempo en que los foros de discusión eran nuestras redes sociales. Los usuarios visitaban aquellos que se ajustaban a cierta temática y eso les...
  • AmidFuror
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    I wish there were alternatives to Reddit. If anyone has a recommendation, let me know.

    • Starfer
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      458•1 year ago

      Lemmy think on it and get back to you.

      • @[email protected]
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        18•1 year ago

        Maybe I can help!

    • @[email protected]
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      136•1 year ago

      I almost feel like there’s an answer there for you, but I can’t put my finger on it.

      However, last night I had a vision about th singer of Motorhead. I think it means something…

      • AmidFuror
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        64•1 year ago

        I’m struggling to see the connection with Lemmy “Kbin” Kilmister.

        • @[email protected]
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          19•1 year ago

          Didn’t he tour with Mastodon?

    • @[email protected]
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      126•1 year ago

      How do you feel about Linux and leftist infighting?

      • @[email protected]
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        33•1 year ago

        Love Linux, but why be redundant about leftists?

        • Y|yukichigai
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          29•1 year ago

          Damn Leftists. They ruined Leftism!

          • @[email protected]
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            4•1 year ago

            The wrong kind of Leftist ruined Leftism, not the right kind.

            /s (because this one really needs it)

      • @[email protected]
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        24•1 year ago

        leftist infighting

        There’s a place that doesn’t happen?

        • TheRealKuni
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          25•1 year ago

          Nobody hates leftists like slightly different leftists.

          • @[email protected]
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            13•1 year ago

            You take that back 👊 💥

        • TheLowestStone
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          5•1 year ago

          Sure but they are mostly Nazi bars and Klan rallies.

        • @[email protected]
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          5•1 year ago

          Truth social

          • @[email protected]
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            Pfffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffft

            It’s funny because Lemmygrad, .ml and hexbear are almost indistinguishable from truth social of outside of plain text

      • paraphrand
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        19•1 year ago

        Sail the high seas.

      • Lad
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        10•1 year ago

        Give me leftist infighting over Nazi content any day of the week!

      • @[email protected]
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        7•1 year ago

        I feel like the tankie brand of leftism shouldn’t be called that. Their embracing of technocrat totalitarians kind of puts them out of the left field.

        • @[email protected]
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          7•1 year ago

          You know, for all the complaints I see of tankies, I have encountered 10x more people who incessantly complain about them.

          • @[email protected]
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            6•1 year ago

            The problem is that a lot of people, specially Americans, have interiorized “red scare” propaganda notions, even when they see themselves as Lefties.

            If you don’t just mentally go “uuh, commies” at the mere wiff of communal solutions it’s a lot easier to actually look at certain ideas and judge them on their actual pros and cons, as is spotting authoritarianism for what it is (whether it claims to want to implement leftwing notions or rightwing ones) and tribalism (of the kind that supports Fascism whilst claiming to be leftwing, and I include both Putin supporting “communists” and Zionism supporting “liberals”)

          • @[email protected]
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            3•1 year ago

            I don’t incessantly complain, but my Lemmy experience had improved massively by banning the most notorious instances.

    • @[email protected]
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      32•1 year ago

      Nice

    • @[email protected]
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      24•1 year ago

      IIRC there is an open source project for forums communities.

      It’s called SMF I think.

      • @[email protected]
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        14•1 year ago

        Nice avatar lol

      • @[email protected]
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        8•1 year ago

        Simple machine forums (smf)

        phpbb

        Mybb

        paid - ipboards, vBulletin

        But that’s all software to run on your own server

      • @[email protected]
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        3•1 year ago

        Darn you beat me to it haha

    • @[email protected]
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      19•1 year ago

      Digg

    • Blackout
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      ICQ recently is about to shut down so I got nothing for ya

      • supercargo
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        ICQ recently is about to shut down so I got nothing for ya

        Uh-oh 😏

        • @[email protected]
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          8•1 year ago

          We could always go back to html chats. Hotelchat, Webmaze…

          • @[email protected]
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            3•1 year ago

            Habbo Hotel

        • @[email protected]
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          1•1 year ago

          Damn, really?

    • @[email protected]
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      13•1 year ago

    • @[email protected]
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      11•1 year ago

      Individual websites for niches instead of amalgamation websites

    • @[email protected]
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      9•1 year ago

      Besides Lemmy, HackerNews is decent altho way less subject/community driven

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        Hackernews is just chock full of techbros who think that since they know how to code, that automatically makes them rational and more authoritative on a subject than most people. Every time I go there I’m surprised by how crappy it is lol

        Edit: somehow misspelled “techbros” lol

        • @[email protected]
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          Hacker News might be the most insufferable and childishly naive place on the internet.

      • @[email protected]
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        9•1 year ago

        Love hackernews but if it gained huge traction outside of the programmer community, it’d be corpinated and enshittified in the blink of an eye by a team of MBAs.

      • @[email protected]
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        5•1 year ago

        Lobste.rs is pretty active too for tech focused topics

        • Jamyang
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          2•1 year ago

          But getting membership is next to impossible. I tried maling them and contacting them on their IRC channel, but to no avail.

    • @[email protected]
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      7•1 year ago

      Usenet

      • AmidFuror
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        alt.atheism

      • @[email protected]OP
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        2•1 year ago

        what is that?

        • @[email protected]
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          Not sure if serious. 😑

          Anyway, before forums, there was a network of servers hosting discussions and to some extent file sharing.

          The modern version of Usenet is pretty focused on file sharing and mostly so on paid servers.

          https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usenet#:~:text=Usenet is a set of,which is potentially widely distributed.

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      5•1 year ago

      I know right? Also iirc there was some discord alternative, but I can’t quite remember the name… it’s just as well, the company owning it probably shut it down. It’s not like it’s some free protocol that can be used by anyone, sigh 😞

    • @[email protected]
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      4•1 year ago

      I’ve heard good things about Lemmy

    • @[email protected]
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      4•1 year ago

      I have been hearing really good things about this new service called X. Very small and friendly community. You just need to register an account and do 12 easy installments of 420.69 yearly

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