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schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

In my mind, that shows that “copying reddit” was not the best idea and people should really have copied things like phpBB or SMF for the flagship “community-based” fediverse platform, at least to start out.

On traditional forums, even relatively small communities cause interesting content to appear all the time, by thread bumping and back-and-forth discussion that can go over many pages. However it is obvious that this structure doesn’t scale well to communities with thousands of active users writing thousands of comments in one thread. The reddit structure works better for such communities, but most communities we have here on the threadiverse just aren’t that big yet.

I grew up with traditional forums and discovered other structures for “social media” much later; I still consider traditional forums way superior to any “social media” structure that is nowadays popular.

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cron@feddit.org ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
I think meaningful commenting only works in trees, for example the old mailing lists.

With classic linear forums, I quickly loose track of different discussions. Good luck finding replys to a comment on page #3 when the post has 300 comments.

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- schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  True, that structure does also have its own peculiar problems.
  
  It’s just what I grew up with (from when I was a preteen, only first became active on reddit ~10 years later), so I’m kinda nostalgic for it. :D One aspect of linear forums is that you gradually got to know the people regularly commenting, much more so than on reddit or Lemmy.
  
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  - Blaze@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
    
    much more so than on reddit or Lemmy.
    
    I still see you quite often 😄
    
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    schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
    Yes, you’re also one of the few usernames I keep seeing repeatedly.
    
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ArbitraryValue@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
I was also a very active user of traditional forums but, in my experience, small subreddits (when I was on Reddit) were a decent substitute, since posts could stay on their front page for several days. The thing I missed most wasn’t actually the format but the community. I knew the people on the forum I posted on the most.

There was the guy with a kind, insightful take on controversial issues and a fetish for women with more than two arms. The active duty marine who reliably posted harsh truths. The feminist I didn’t get along with at all despite agreeing with her about most things. The dedicated father who bought real razor wire for his daughter when she wanted a UN-peacekeeper-base themed birthday party. The very determined conservative who defended his position no matter how outnumbered he was and once bragged that he had given his wife several dozen orgasms in a row…

I suppose I was the young man with strange views about what was or wasn’t fair and a great deal of anger over any perceived unfairness. (I don’t think I was particularly well-liked.) It’s hard to find that sort of thing on the internet these days.

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Blaze@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
“New Comments” helps with that

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OpenStars@piefed.social ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
PieFed is trying a bunch of new stuff that even Reddit does not have, enabling the democratization of moderation by putting more power into the hands of individual users (e.g. mods don't have to be as aggressive as removing many posts with keywords when users who want such can set their own preferences via the built-in keyword filtering, which enables All, Some, and None).

Lemmy to me looks more like a straight attempt to copy, although the modlog is a great addition - unfortunately in the absence of notifications of a moderation event, lack of modmail, and presence of an obscured moderator name, Lemmy has somehow become even more authoritian than Reddit.🤷😳

Though with a MUCH more friendly userbase, and most admins, and ofc lack of profit incentive which all by its lonesome helps a ton.

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