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I was using IRC and a few forums at that time. Those have been largely drained.
by wahnfrieden 3y ago
I was using IRC and a few forums at that time. Those have been largely drained.
- prmoustache 3y agoFunnily enough, I closed all my social medias account except the activitypub one and I am still loging in almost every day to 2 old school web forums. Activity may be lower than during the heydays but in term of quality and positivity it is much better. The moderators are doing a good job to keep everything civil, which is only really possible at a small scale.
- operatingthetan 3y agoI still follow some forums and the tone of the conversations there are generally much less combative and friendly than reddit, so if you can find some in your interests it can be great.
- iforgotpassword 3y agoI still frequent one but it's basically the same people as 15 years ago and conversations are exclusively injokes and lore. No sane person stumbling across it in their right mind would ever sign up there. I think this is a common problem to smaller, older communities, but I feel it is more pronounced in German ones. We are the kings of snark and knowing-it-better. Just the other day I was googling about a TRV and ended up in a German home automation forum. A new user started a thread posting a very specific question that was about the mechanical connection of the TRV to the radiator, they explained the issue well and included a photo. In the photo you were able to see the exact brand/model of the TRV. The very first reply was literally just "why are you using X? Aren't you reading this forum?" Like, this shit would get downvoted into oblivion ob sites like reddit, but since this was an old, well established user with a four-digit postcount, another two or three users chimed in commenting about the TRV sucking. Not a single mention why it sucks, or a Link to an according thread. This was German forums in a nutshell to me.
- rrr_oh_man 3y agoThank you for bringing back those memories