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

if you have a thread you like, make sure to archive.is or archive.org it

You can also request all of your posts on Reddit in a neat little csv. Takes about a month to get though.

And then you can go through and delete all your comments, lessening the value of Reddit as a platform.

You can also edit all your high scoring comments with bizarre misinformation so the next AI scrape gets dumber.

I use the “nuke Reddit history” extension

I never got mine. Been a lot more that a month.

Took a looong time, but I eventually got mine. I think it might have even been more than a month. They are certainly in no rush.

I was very happy to find when I was getting involved in a project that it was mostly organised/discussed on their forum, it makes it so much nicer and more accessible

I wish there were alternatives to Reddit. If anyone has a recommendation, let me know.

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…

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

Didn’t he tour with Mastodon?

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

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

Uh-oh 😏

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

IIRC there is an open source project for forums communities.

It’s called SMF I think.

Darn you beat me to it haha

Simple machine forums (smf)

phpbb

Mybb

paid - ipboards, vBulletin

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

Lemmy think on it and get back to you.

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 😞

How do you feel about Linux and leftist infighting?

leftist infighting

There’s a place that doesn’t happen?

Sure but they are mostly Nazi bars and Klan rallies.

Nobody hates leftists like slightly different leftists.

Love Linux, but why be redundant about leftists?

Damn Leftists. They ruined Leftism!

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.

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

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

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.

Individual websites for niches instead of amalgamation websites

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

Lobste.rs is pretty active too for tech focused topics

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

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.

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

Hacker News might be the most insufferable and childishly naive place on the internet.

I’ve heard good things about Lemmy

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

That’s how they git ya.

Unless that “one place” is an open, federated standard that allows anyone to participate with their own self-hosted server - i.e. “one place” = the fediverse, then it’s fine!

it seemed truly cozy and community-based for the first decade or so. you could buy gold to directly pay for servers and that was it, no greedy monetization or shittification. then awards came out with the same transparency, and it was fun to reward people for good posts (i gave gold partially to bookmark excellent comments for myself, as well). then spez got into coke (probably, i dunno, or hit his head very hard on something) and we have modern day reddit, a trash heap. i like how they deleted all the old awards and gold records, pure spit in the face to anyone that still believed in anything they were doing.

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