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IMO, the single login of Reddit is what killed off forums. Twitter+Tumblr "communities" are mostly people who never were active on forums in the first place.
by BeFlatXIII 5y ago
IMO, the single login of Reddit is what killed off forums. Twitter+Tumblr "communities" are mostly people who never were active on forums in the first place.
- sircastor 5y agoI’ve been contemplating that problem in relation to Facebook. I had a forum that had relatively low activity, and the sole admin disappeared. When I finally got ahold of him, he suggested start a Facebook group. While I think this would have less friction to discover, I find Facebook groups to be super disjointed. It feels more like a bunch of people talking at the group, rather than conversations, and it feels very transitory - which falls in line with Facebook’s approach: the most important thing is what’s next.
- BeFlatXIII 5y agoI agree with your thoughts on FB groups. They are also even more prone to repost spam and unintentional circlejerking than Reddit because the half-life of visibility of each post is even shorter and both have non-functional search buttons. While Reddit posts get hard-locked after six months, FB posts simply disappear into the datacenter.