Los foros de internet están desapareciendo porque ahora todo es Reddit y Discord. Y eso es preocupante
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Hubo un tiempo en que los foros de discusión eran nuestras redes sociales. Los usuarios visitaban aquellos que se ajustaban a cierta temática y eso les...
  • nasi_goreng@lemmy.zipEnglish
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    11 months ago

    …and Facebook Groups.

    A lot of people simply don’t realize that a lot of traditional community, especially more niche are moving to Facebook. There’s no even Reddit alternative for them.

    From fried chicken cooking, big tree photography, McDonalds toys collector, to local history archiver.

    It’s harder to convince them here, unless there are Facebook Group alternative for fediverse.

  • Wrongdoer4094@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    11 months ago

    I have been trying to build a forum recently, but found phpbb really ugly and difficult to customize (even changing the logo was oddly difficult). I know about discourse but I would prefer a PHP based solution I can host in one of my current servers.

    Are there any better solutions?

  • werefreeatlast@lemmy.worldBannedEnglish
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    11 months ago

    I for one would want a more open source system where a single guy running a server doesn’t have all the power in the forum. It would be awesome if a fedi form of forums took over and one could replicate all the info as relays.

  • tauren@lemm.eeEnglish
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    11 months ago

    What are we going to do about it?

    Nothing. People move to reddit and discord for a reason. If forums were worth saving, this problem wouldn’t have existed.

  • SleafordMod@feddit.ukEnglish
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    11 months ago

    Maybe Lemmy is a 2020s version of phpBB (the forum software, which is open source like Lemmy is). Lemmy and phpBB can both be hosted by anyone, but of course the interesting thing about Lemmy is that Lemmy servers can share their content with each other.

  • venotic@kbin.melroy.org
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    11 months ago

    Are you pretending that nothing has ever been tried? The Fediverse, that’s what is being done about it. That’s why most of us are here. Also, why narrow it down to Reddit and Discord? Articles like these are garbage because it’s very tone deaf.

    Likes and Upvotes have long, long existed before. They started on forums, it was just the dawning of MySpace and Facebook and Reddit are what popularized them and made it standard.

    Fucking hell, Forums also still exist, they just aren’t getting activity. I hate this fucking article now.

    • simple@lemm.eeEnglish
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      11 months ago

      Articles like this are constantly like “if only there was something we can do about it” while omitting the thing people are doing about it because the writer is too lazy to research properly

    • tfm@europe.pubOPEnglish
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      11 months ago

      Are you pretending that nothing has ever been tried? The Fediverse, that’s what is being done about it. That’s why most of us are here.

      Yes, we are here. But how do we get the rest of the population over? We are still more complicated to use in comparison to centralized networks. That’s why most people are hesitant to join. This and exposure, of course.

      Also, why narrow it down to Reddit and Discord?

      I have heard from many people, and also from many YouTube influencers, that they add “reddit” to the end of their search query. So basically, people use Reddit to search on the internet now because it’s real people, not shitty SEO content.

      Fucking hell, Forums also still exist, they just aren’t getting activity

      True. But forums don’t get the activity they deserve because of centralized networks that take it from them.

      Let’s change that! What can we do to strengthen and grow the Fediverse?

      • lambalicious@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
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        11 months ago

        So basically, people use Reddit to search on the internet now because it’s real people, not shitty SEO content.

        Excuse me what? Since when since Jun 2024 does Reddit actually have real people?

  • Optional@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    11 months ago

    No, enshittified search engines are only catalogging those because they’re in the AI bed with them.

    Your Favorite Forum still rules.

  • Rymrgand's Daughter @lemmy.worldEnglish
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    11 months ago

    Yeah especially when Teddit or discord flip the script but Reddit’s semi implosion could have led to a resurgence if their Admins hadn’t calmed down

  • sfu@lemm.eeEnglish
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    11 months ago

    There are tons of forums out there, the search engines just won’t show them to you. The search engines are the real problem.