Too disconnected. You are expected to remember to visit multiple forums every day. Think of every forum you are no longer a part of, one day you just forgot abo

Too disconnected. You are expected to remember to visit multiple forums every day. Think of every forum you are no longer a part of, one day you just forgot about it. What Discord ACTUALLY gives you, is notifications. If forums were as low-friction to join an interact with as Discord, there would be more incentive. Unfortunately centralization usually means centralizing body. Lemmy is a federated reddit alternative that in some ways is like a modern forum.