From the first moment I first went online in 1996, forums were the main place to hang out. In fact the very first thing I did was join an online forum run by the Greek magazine "PC Master" so I could directly to my favourite game reviewers (for me it was Tsourinakis, for those old [...]
  • LunchMoneyThief@links.hackliberty.orgEnglish
    272·
    27 days ago

    Millennials naively assumed that the following generations would just naturally be as computer literate as they are. We’re dealing with people now who think that wi-fi is internet service.

    The author of the article is specifically referring to bulletin board forums when describing forums. Link aggregators like reddit are not forums. They are comments sections.

    • db0@lemmy.dbzer0.comOPEnglish
      202·
      27 days ago

      I am the author. Heard you were talking shit…

      I kid, I kid :D

      I insist that in their current form, reddit (and lemmy) can serve as both forums and link aggregators with comment sections.

      • LunchMoneyThief@links.hackliberty.orgEnglish
        51·
        27 days ago

        Well anyway I enjoyed the read.

        I am only here actually because proper forums have yet to figure out federation. As soon as Discourse or Flarum or whatever figure out full federation, I’m gone (over to them).

        Specifically, I prefer chronologically sorted posts and the absence of voting systems.

        • db0@lemmy.dbzer0.comOPEnglish
          61·
          27 days ago

          You can actually do that on lemmy already like so. Sorting by new doesn’t use the voting. Hell you can even sort them like a forum by sorting by “new comments”

          • LunchMoneyThief@links.hackliberty.orgEnglish
            4·
            26 days ago

            I get it, and thanks for the advice. But I dislike what voting does to spaces like this as a matter of principle. It is a social consensus reinforcement mechanism, even if it is implemented with the best of intentions.