Are sites like lemmy , reddit and discord the true successors to the old internet forums of the 2000s . or were the forums superior to todays reddit , lemmy or discord

  • PonyOfWar@pawb.social
    38·
    2 years ago

    I think a big difference is the temporary nature of threads on Lemmy/Reddit. On forums, a new reply pushes a thread back to the front of the page, which leads to discussions that can go on for months or years. On Lemmy, a discussion is active for a few days at most, with the exception of stickied threads. It leads to a different discussion culture and I do sometimes miss that aspect of forums.

    • DefederateLemmyMl@feddit.nlEnglish
      301·
      2 years ago

      Another difference is that on forums you tend to get to know the members if you hang around long enough. On reddit/lemmy I never got this feeling, you’re just discussing with random usernames and once the discussion is over, you will probably never run into each other again.

      • Vent@lemm.ee
        16·
        2 years ago

        You still get this effect if you are active on specific communities, especially smaller ones.

        • DefederateLemmyMl@feddit.nlEnglish
          61·
          2 years ago

          Can’t say I ever got that from any subreddit, except in the negative way: trolls and overzealous moderators.

          • Gamma@beehaw.orgEnglish
            1·
            2 years ago

            As a redditor for over 13 years, the smaller communities were one of my favorite parts of the site.

          • candybrie@lemmy.world
            1·
            2 years ago

            Definitely happened in my bump group. But it was maybe 50 active users all going through the same intense thing.

      • DrQuint@lemm.ee
        5·
        2 years ago

        You can still get to know people on reddit. I know some by name. But only on smaller communities that still use the old style flairs, because it’s easier to notice that the same type of post is generally attached to the same mini image and then the name gets noticeable.

        This effect was entirely gone from medium sized communities and up.

      • davefischer@beehaw.orgEnglish
        1·
        2 years ago

        I think about that a lot. On usenet, I had lots of friends. On modern forums, every conversation is sitting down with a bunch of strangers.

        Maybe it’s just my memory is shot because I’m old? Ha ha.

      • PonyOfWar@pawb.social
        3·
        2 years ago

        Good point, though I think that also prioritizes threads with a newer creation date? In any case threads seems to die relatively quickly anyway.