From the first moment I first went online in 1996, forums were the main place to hang out. In fact the very first thing I did was join an online forum run by the Greek magazine "PC Master" so I could directly to my favourite game reviewers (for me it was Tsourinakis, for those old [...]
  • db0@lemmy.dbzer0.comOPEnglish
    202·
    3 months ago

    I am the author. Heard you were talking shit…

    I kid, I kid :D

    I insist that in their current form, reddit (and lemmy) can serve as both forums and link aggregators with comment sections.

    • LunchMoneyThief@links.hackliberty.orgEnglish
      52·
      3 months ago

      Well anyway I enjoyed the read.

      I am only here actually because proper forums have yet to figure out federation. As soon as Discourse or Flarum or whatever figure out full federation, I’m gone (over to them).

      Specifically, I prefer chronologically sorted posts and the absence of voting systems.

      • db0@lemmy.dbzer0.comOPEnglish
        61·
        3 months ago

        You can actually do that on lemmy already like so. Sorting by new doesn’t use the voting. Hell you can even sort them like a forum by sorting by “new comments”

        • LunchMoneyThief@links.hackliberty.orgEnglish
          41·
          3 months ago

          I get it, and thanks for the advice. But I dislike what voting does to spaces like this as a matter of principle. It is a social consensus reinforcement mechanism, even if it is implemented with the best of intentions.