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
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
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.
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.
I feel that you get to know the regular users on your instance here pretty well, having a profile picture helps.
Yea I’ve been seeing the same few people pop up, honestly wasn’t expecting it to be as closeknit on a service like this.
You still get this effect if you are active on specific communities, especially smaller ones.
Can’t say I ever got that from any subreddit, except in the negative way: trolls and overzealous moderators.
I feel like part of that might be the subtly of the avatars here vs forums where people tend to have unique large pictures and signatures
When you reply on Lemmy, it may push the thread on top of the «active» filter, so it is similar to forums. Some forums feature voting but to my knowledge none of them has a display algorithm based on votes.
Isn’t that exactly what sorting by active is for?
As a general rule, I think the things that tend to happen on each kind of Internet platform with user-generated content are mainly the result of how that platform is structured: which posts are shown to whom under what conditions, etc. These are just some examples of this phenomenon.