We’ve had plenty of questions about what people miss from reddit that Lemmy had, or what they hope doesn’t come to Lemmy from reddit in future, but do you miss from the earlier days, before reddit that you would like to come back?
We’ve had plenty of questions about what people miss from reddit that Lemmy had, or what they hope doesn’t come to Lemmy from reddit in future, but do you miss from the earlier days, before reddit that you would like to come back?
I miss the old forums and discussion boards that we had pre “web 2.0”. I read a YA book series as a teenager that had a forum, and met one of the best friends of my life on it. I know people still do such things, but I’ve never really had a close knit community like we had back then, not since the likes of Reddit and other social media giants have dominated the way we all use the internet. I’d be very happy to go back to the internet of the early aughts and just stay there.
Niche web forums still exist around a discrete interest group, they have lost a lot of traffic to enshittified giants but I think the people who post their lazy questions on facebook groups are better off there anyway. Repeat questions was an issue on web forums and still is, but I think having an additional torrent of ask-before-search users would make forums untenable now.
The internet was amazing when only technically-capable people were on it. Or in other words, everything gets ruined by being too popular.