Might be handy if Lemmy allowed to hide karma altogether. You could still up-/downvote (depending on the instance, only upvoting allowed). Or places where karma is disabled by default.
this post was submitted on 25 Nov 2025
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Some apps, Mlem is one, allows you to hide scores. You can also remove the up/down vote buttons should you choose.
Does anybody else miss Compuserve, Delphi, etc?
I can't miss them because I was too young when they were relevant, but I do love the early days of home computing specifically because I was technically alive and aware but not old enough to know what was going on. Anything from the 80s has a surreal dream-like quality for me. I'll hear a random word like "CompuServe" and instantly be transported back to the floor of the living room when I was knee-high to a grasshopper, when I heard the word on a TV commercial or overheard older kids or grownups mention it. Then I'd be like "Oh yeah that really did exist and wasn't just the product of my tiny baby brain." It's also why I like synthwave music and cassette futurism.
Those still exist. You just have the wrong address.
Visit cyberspace.online
I actually do really like that one. Has a cyber cafe exploring the forums vibe
in theory, yes; discussion threads, yes; no for questions and answers. people on modern-style platforms can be assholes, but i have wanted to punch a guy from 2007 more times than i can count.
No, because they haven't gone anywhere.
Mgl, not paying attention to subreddit names and treating everything like I'm swimming through a sea of floating ideas, when posting, is part of why I'm on Lemmy today. Reddit's sadistic mods didn't like it much.
I miss UUCP style forums. They had threading that worked and the concept of 'i've alread read this so don't show it to me again'. Together those made it easy to see well thought out responses weeks latter.
All other forums are worse. They encourage writing something quick - long well thought writing won't be found because by the time someone gets it down the topic is dead.
though the original trolls were from such forums. It should be no surprise that everyone else has them - they change nothing.
I love the old school forums. I think folks were nicer in them. However, I just couldn't go back for good simply because the UI is not user friendly, and navigating the sub-forums is like going through the labyrinth. Reddit and Lemmy are better due to better UI.
obligatory RIP kongregate
Forums have their place. They're the place if you want to talk to experts who will shit on you for not being an expert, get ignored, or get actual help a few days later if you're lucky.
Yes.
Get the Discourse app and find a forum you like. Or start your own. It’s cheap, I’m spending less than 2 coffees a month to host one.
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