Fair enough; couldn’t hurt to ask. And I’m sure it had something to do with current events; of that, there was no doubt.
I’m in the old enough to know how to use the internet but young enough to not really have gotten into forums bracket. I like Reddit because there’s a shared language on there and everything is all in one place. Wanna see homelab stuff and then some random 40k lore then learn what not to do when doing electrical stuff at home? Reddit. Not a fan of having to go through 20 different forums a day just to keep up. I make an exception for YYE because it is the only one.
In fairness to me, I did try other forums related to hobbies of mine, but they all seem just as bad/snobbish as Reddit, but at least with Reddit, there’s a degree of anonymity. On specific forums, everybody tends to know everybody (due to the ol’ mass lurkers vs few posters issue; though. not necessarily specific to any niche forum(s))
I am, however, trying a self-hosted RSS feed, but again Old enough to internet; young enough to never have gotten into/learned RSS in its heyday bracket (Doesn’t mean I’m not trying to catch up though)
That said, if anyone can recommend a good forum-specific alternative for homelab, selfhosting, residential networking, electrician, home automation, gaming lore (TES,40k,Halo), and IT/computers, that would cover like 80% of my reddit replacement needs
Yeah, the whole API debacle along with the admins’ disrespect for their mods and users that make the communities great (and potentially profitable) did it for me. The fact they let LLMs scrape wasn’t great either. I really hope the fediverse takes off, particularly with some free-speech instances.
I loved it when I was younger, but now much of it is too weird and/or innapropriate for me. I still love One Piece and Spy x Family, though. Liking less entertainment is better though, my friend.
Yeah, hard agree. I don’t use it nearly as much as I used to, but I still do use it because no direct alternative exists yet. Tbh, we should have seen the writing on the wall when they bought Alien Blue (absolutely and objectively a superior iOS client) and then pretty much immediately scuttled it. In fairness though, Reddit isn’t what it used to be. People definitely left en masse and what little is left is pretty much just bots and niche hobbies/fandoms (and y’know… Other stuff).
I still enjoy using Reddit, but the iOS Client was/is/always-will-be absolute ■■■■. I’m mostly using reddit in general either at work, on the toilet, or because it’s a top link on google.
Tbh, I’m not sold on the fediverse. From what I could tell, it was pretty much the same as reddit, in fact, it’s just as bad as reddit when I joined many, many years ago. Either you knew how to use it, or you were a, well, we’re not allowed to use that word anymore. Basically, git gud or gtfo. And that’s what the fediverse feels like now. Just a bunch of individual nodes of people who feel suprior to you because they know how to use the fediverse and you don’t.
Additionally, maybe I’m misunderstanding, but basically, it just feels like niche forums on the internet, but with extra steps. Or, if you will, they feel like the internet did back in 1996, before google kicked off. You just have to “know” where to go. But then again “Dead Internet Theory” so idk
On the real tho, it does annoy me a lot. Like I’d rather just see people talking about tricks they’re working on or tutorials and whatnot, but it’s just dominated by buy/sell haha
sure it had something to do with current events; of that, there was no doubt.
