smikwily

@smikwily@kbin.social

Why I Miss Forums, and Despise Discord/Matrix/Element

Back in the good old days, forums and IRC ran parallel with each other and had no reason to intersect. With the internet becoming bigger, more consolidated and commercialized than ever, people are finding ways to spend time on as few different sites as possible. Forums have closed in favor of cheaper-to-run Discord servers. This...

smikwily,

I'm just happy to know I'm not the only one. It feels like you are trying to keep up with dozens of different conversations at one time and you only have a broad idea of what the individual conversations are about.

I can't tell if it is just one of those "generational" things or if it just doesn't click for some people.

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