I honestly don’t think Internet forum will ever loose itself. You will always always have small amount of people who will migrate to smaller forums for whatever topic or subject that they are interested in. Yes it might seem like discord and Reddit might appear to be the major forums of today’s modern age of communication under the title of forums.

People will always migrate and do whatever means to obtain freedom of speech. If Reddit and discord, well Reddit that I actually know of continue to perm ban or ban because of a word that our overlords aka moderators ban, because they are drunk with power and micromanage their sub Reddit then it’ll die. It will take time but forums like Lemmy and IRC (I know this ages me.) which still exist today, will never die. People just are not aware that other forums exist. They just have to do a little research or stumble upon it by accident which is how I found Lemmy. I was familiar with the term fediverse, but just never really looked into it.

So there’s hope. Humans are peculiar and interesting. We are highly intelligent, and I will always lean on the fact that we are tenacious and we never lack in ingenuity. They can never control our creativity and imagination. If something tries to monopolizes and put us in a box, there’s always a rebel creating a door for some of us to escape.

[–] conicalscientist@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

Forums were micromanaged far more than modern social platforms. Reddit is one of the "free speech absolutist" sites like its sibling 4chan. These were opposing paradigms to forums.

I've long contended that modern social media users would absolutely hate the old style forums. If people think subreddit mods and reddit content mods suck. They haven't met the admin of Joe Bobs phpbb forum hosted from his garage. Joe Bob doesn't suffer fools gladly.

I don't think it's a free speech problem. I think people have not only been conditioned to be content junkies. They've become addicted to being Greater Fuckwads.

Maybe nobody cares what you think and whatever your words are they aren't that important. Social media has devoured peoples egos turning them into the Greatest Fuckwads. With social media everyone has a podium and everyone has very important words with billions of doomscrollers as an audience. Don't you dare steppy my freedoms!!1!

Anyways I think the real test is whether people can handle a small forum with strict moderation and focused discussion. That will reveal who has half a brain apart from the fuckwads. I've seen people come to what are now basically private forums acting like a garden variety social media user only to get smacked down real quick. A sobering dose of reality for them.

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