Are sites like lemmy , reddit and discord the true successors to the old internet forums of the 2000s . or were the forums superior to todays reddit , lemmy or discord

  • Rikudou_Sage@lemmings.world
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    1 year ago

    I never really got the distinction. Reddit was just a massive forums with a lot of subforums. So yeah, there’s the difference that it’s centralized, but that was a pro in my book.

    Now Lemmy/Kbin etc. seem to do the best of both worlds - centralized and decentralized at the same time.

    So IMO yes, these sites are the successors. Not Discord, though, that’s a non-indexable chat app.

    • foggy@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      The difference is the voting.

      And slight shifts in UI.

      But nothing ever really changes. Facebooks current UI is an echo of AOL.