An era of the internet is ending, and we’re watching it happen practically in real time. Twitter has been on a steep and seemingly inexorable decline for, well, years, but especially since Elon Musk bought the company last fall and made a mess of the place. Reddit has spent the last couple of months self-immolating in similar ways, alienating its developers and users and hoping it can survive by sticking its head in the sand until the battle’s over. (I thought for a while that Reddit would eventually be the last good place left, but… nope.) TikTok remains ascendent — and looks ever more likely to be banned in some meaningful way. Instagram has turned into an entertainment platform; nobody’s on Facebook anymore....

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[–] 65 points 3 years ago (8 children)

Forums as a response to leaving Reddit feels odd to me despite subreddits basically being forums. I guess without a way to aggregate separate forums into one app it loses the appeal that Reddit had for me.

Here's hoping lemmy takes off.

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  • [–] 54 points 3 years ago (7 children)

    Yeah, that's the killer. Reddit was great because I could join a hundred communities and see all of them in one place. Sounds like we need a common forum aggregator of some sort.

    Or Lemmy. Liking it so far.

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  • [–] 10 points 3 years ago (3 children)

    Same. Only thing I'm missing so far is some of my favorite communities like r/onepunchman

    I used to rely on it for notification of English translations of new chapters

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  • [–] 4 points 3 years ago

    Same, as well as several other anime communities. There is a OPM community here but so far it’s just a bot reposting Reddit posts with no other engagement.

    More people need to bring up migrating to lemmy on those subreddits.

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  • [–] 6 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    And the upvoting allowed good stuff from any topic to percolate up. I don’t know too much but the barriers between instances may mean some good content from lesser sources may not be seen or the supporters remain fragmented.

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  • [–] 3 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    But the latter was also true of Reddit. Good information from smaller subreddits still remained unseen, because of upvoting.

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