Forums Are Still Alive, Active, And A Treasure Trove Of Information [Aftermath]
Forums Are Still Alive, Active, And A Treasure Trove Of Information [Aftermath]
Internet forums are still alive and kicking and full of information. Here are the best niche communities I could find that are alive and well.
I would love to see integration with the fediverse. There's still a few forums I jump in on every once in a while, but it's so hard to keep up. I'd love it if I could see them here via federation
interoperability is the problem with this. what "integration with the fediverse" means practically for novel forms of software is "handling a trillion really annoying edge cases that Mastodon created for every other thing that isn't Mastodon." Lemmy, for example, handles interoperation with Mastodon incredibly poorly (and vice versa). you can do it, but for meaningful interaction it's not very good. and forums have their own sets of edge cases that would probably make, say, forum-to-Lemmy interoperation a giant mess.
Discourse has got an ActivityPub plugin, but the forum owner needs to explicitly add it to their forum.
Quiet down, you don't want the bots or the AI scrapers to hear you.
MANY of the old places of the internet are still active, heavily overshadowed by the current centralized feudal web of 5 websites all with screenshots of each other but STILL alive. Hell, even IRC is still running, and i understand so does Usenet!
Usenet's mostly pirated stuff now.
IRC is a shadow of its former self, but if you're into FOSS it's still good.
I went back to my old forum haunt after a 10 year absence recently, very surprised to see it's still kicking, though a bit less active. Nice to talk to some old friends lol
I love forums. I think they should stay the way they are. We just need to get people off Reddit and decentralize back to the relevant forums instead. . ok.
Most forum users have no interest in learning what a fediverse is
The forum I belonged to (the brown room) which was full of people kicked/banned off the main forum (the blue room).
Eventually the owner of the site was jailed for trying to blow up n RC car under the car of his ex wife's partner.
Fucking dramallamas
Toyota FJ Cruiser was a wild place
I used to love forums back in the day, but I must say I’ve really gotten over the format of the medium. It promotes email-like long form responses with space used up with avatar images, handles and signature blocks. Nested replies become a nightmare steer several layer’s and you’re cooked on mobile.
Would love a Lemmy-like plugin to parse vBulletin forums. Endless scroll for topics, minimal non-content fluff, easy and quick replies. (The irony of this reply length isn’t lost on me. Most of my replies are short, promise!)