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Reddit is Digging its own grave. Eternal September awaits all the old school forums that still remain. But perhaps that decentralization will be a good thing in
by sh34r 3y ago
Reddit is Digging its own grave. Eternal September awaits all the old school forums that still remain. But perhaps that decentralization will be a good thing in the end.
I think the network effects of Reddit are a lot easier to undo than that of Twitter. There is little core functionality that didn’t exist in forum software from the Naughties.
- spideymans 3y agoI'd love to see a federated Reddit clone. Administrators should have power over their communities, nor Reddit.
- sh34r 3y agoI don’t like the idea of giving Reddit mods even more power, at all. I’d much rather see users empowered to share Usenet style kill-lists and whatnot. But I have a bad feeling that my desired Goldilocks zone between 2023 Reddit’s overmoderation and 2023 Twitter’s hyper-radicalization engine is very narrow. Social media moderation might be an intractable problem at scale. I don’t know what the solution is, but I’m really rooting for Reddit to crash and burn. I miss the old internet… It’ll be interesting to see how Blue Sky shakes out, if and when it opens up to the public.
- jeremyjh 3y agoYou mean other than Lemmy?
- azemetre 3y agodo you happen to know of general programming/computer science forums (not counting hacker news)? That's really my only interest, I enjoy TV and movies but like discussing those in person nowadays.
- rahidz 3y agoWhy discount HN? This is where I get most of my tech news from. ArsTechnica has forums too, though not sure how active those are.
- azemetre 3y agoHN doesn't lend itself to community building well, it's more like a meetup spot IME. Also it may be my eyes but I hardly notice people's names on here compared to something like reddit.
- canadaduane 3y agoYou might like https://lobste.rs https://lobste.rs
- waif 3y agoHonestly it's probably better for the web if it reverts back to the model of smaller independent forums. HN is a good example of a healthy small/medium sized community. I would say the 'social media era' of the history of the web has concluded in failure. When you consolidate everyone onto a singular platform, it creates a weird unhealthy community dynamic, and the business incentives do not align at all with users.