Forums are not anachronistic - they are the future again. The only way to guard against the censorship of the current social media platforms is to not rely on

Forums are not anachronistic - they are the future again. The only way to guard against the censorship of the current social media platforms is to not rely on them. What always baffled me is why forums didn't embrace technologies we had in the BBS days. Offline readers were the greatest thing since sliced bread - you could use whatever interface to a message board you liked, whatever editor you liked, etc. It was a lot easier to quickly scan through literally thousands of messages with a native, local client that relying on the constant ping pong between your client and a remote server. Decentralized aggregation is what we really need. A combination of RSS and DNS. Ways to foster creation and discovery of hand curated lists like the original Yahoo - but thousands of them. No reliance on Google, Facebook, Twitter, etc. It's a nice dream anyway...