The only reason I hang around here is because there’s no forum equivalent
Equivalent of what? A place where you could make your own communities? (without spinning up a server or being a disconnected island) Yeah, I can only think of imageboard examples of reddit-like DIY community sites, and those… really aren’t what you asked for (very few had intelligent discussions, and by their nature, they mainly just attracted people who got banned from more normal communities).
Unless mods wanted to spend 24/7 making sure people didn’t use FOSS Reddit the same way Reddit was used, that was always going to happen, if it hadn’t then people would have went back to Reddit to doom scroll again.
Exactly. There’s not really any point to me crying ‘we’re not a reddit clone! we’re not a reddit clone!’
Yeah, a forum equivalent in the sense of a message board where people can create their own sub sections, this way you’ve got ongoing discussions instead of the Reddit system where you can have the same discussion happening multiple times under the same post because messages are threaded instead of being in chronological order.
Message boards are much better to accumulate knowledge and to prevent repetition…
Equivalent of what? A place where you could make your own communities? (without spinning up a server or being a disconnected island) Yeah, I can only think of imageboard examples of reddit-like DIY community sites, and those… really aren’t what you asked for (very few had intelligent discussions, and by their nature, they mainly just attracted people who got banned from more normal communities).
Exactly. There’s not really any point to me crying ‘we’re not a reddit clone! we’re not a reddit clone!’
Yeah, a forum equivalent in the sense of a message board where people can create their own sub sections, this way you’ve got ongoing discussions instead of the Reddit system where you can have the same discussion happening multiple times under the same post because messages are threaded instead of being in chronological order.
Message boards are much better to accumulate knowledge and to prevent repetition…