Man I wonder why forum culture died? Reddit totally just one day for no reason whatsoever replaced it, right?

@PhenomX6 reddit and later discord. I'll play devil's advocate though: reddit doesn't store passwords in plain text. Early to mid 2000s forums security was a nightmare

Also:
-Forum admins reading your PMs; the reason assemblergames stayed up was the admins did just this.
-PLEASE SIGN UP TO DO ANYTHING.
-Forum paywalls (seriously some do this shit).
-Forum moderator more ban happy than LTG in his stream chat.
-Jannies censoring discussion to avoid getting nuked by someone else.

A lot of people forgot one of the reasons Discord/Reddit got so fucking big was the lack of moderation at one point or little moderation. Then when a scandal happened, just throw moderation at the problem by the time it has critical mass. Whoopsies. Now Discord went from the cool kids club chat platform to groomer central overnight, and Reddit went from the days of /r/watchpeopledie and edgy shitpost subs to posting there means it's like walking on eggshells. But nobody will move because it's big already, and if you use the same tricks to get big you'll be thrown off hosts for hate speech.

@PhenomX6 also: please present yourself in the presentations thread, and don't you even DARE necropost.
By the way, ever since the Internet died the first few pages are bots reposting coolasfuck gifs or corporate propaganda

the fedi is the last stand of the internet IMO

@PhenomX6 @devnull I'd respond with "we still have IRC" but I wouldn't know, because I haven't been in more than a decade.
But maybe IRC can take the place of the *chans, and the fediverse will replace reddit.

There used to be a reddit for everything, but it was easy to look for yours. Fedi, though? There's an instance, yes but how do you find the four other people posting illicit photos of stolen furniture seen at garage sales?
It's not like they talk about that on their other accounts.