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> You are aware that an entire generation of Internet forums operated (and still operate) this way, right? And yet many of them died or, better put, most of th
by darkwater 4y ago
> You are aware that an entire generation of Internet forums operated (and still operate) this way, right?
And yet many of them died or, better put, most of the new forums were never born nowadays because communities moved to centralized, managed solutions (Facebook, Telegram, Discord, Slack etc)
- kitsune_ 4y agoMany of the focused niche discussions around the globe still happen in forums (and subreddits).
- darkwater 4y agoReddit is as centralized as a platform could ever be.
- kitsune_ 4y agoI didn't claim otherwise
- nerdponx 4y agowhat's interesting about Reddit is that moderation is (in theory) decentralized and handled independently by each sub. Only account creation and discovery are centralized, from the perspective of an average user experience. The whole point of a federated system is that you get the best of both worlds: global discovery and one single account/login for all communities, but you retain per-community moderation.
- nerdponx 4y agoI mostly attributed this at the time to UI/UX improvement in the centralized platforms, and not needing so many different logins for different communities.