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Reddit / lemmy vs Old internet forums (lemm.ee)

submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Are sites like lemmy , reddit and discord the true successors to the old internet forums of the 2000s . or were the forums superior to todays reddit , lemmy or discord

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (6 children)

Discord is a bunch of chat rooms - fundamentally not a forum or fora.

Reddit and Lemmy are message boards full of fora, with each forum inside them full of threads which have branching threads inside them, and so on. Their distinguishing factors are really their methods for sorting posts and discussion threads, but those methods are really significant. Old fora had no voting mechanic.

Whether or not life is superior with a voting mechanic is a subjective question, but I absolutely loathe how on Reddit any post that either dissents from the hive mind or is perceived to gets downvoted to oblivion and suffers additional consequences, like how no-one will answer honest questions if the hive has decided that they don't like it. Personal example: I once asked on the linguistics subreddit why descriptivist linguistics were preferred to prescriptivist and was downvoted to hell and back. The only replies were to call me a racist. I never got an answer, and I still don't know. So voting is not the end-all be-all of forum mechanics.

[–] [email protected] 34 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (2 children)

Personal example: I once asked on the linguistics subreddit why desceiptivist linguistics were preferred to prescriptivist and was downvoted to hell and back. The only replies were to call me a racist. I never got an answer, and I still don’t know. So voting is not the end-all be-all of forum mechanics.

I'mma have to call bullshit here, unless there just so happened to be a different person using the name quindraco on Reddit who asked this very question.

Your question was answered.
You may have gotten downvotes, but it was certainly not "to hell and back" -- your post is currently sitting at +18.
Not a single person called you racist, even after you compared descriptivism to literal genocide.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Also did this person really refer to an experience they had 12 years ago??

I can't even remember the shit that happened to me 2 years ago. The world was an entirely different place back then.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

I remember some things that happened 12 years ago better than some that happened 2 years ago. Memory works like that.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago

Lmao gottem

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