If Twitter, Facebook and Reddit are in their death throes, will people gravitate back to forums?

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Corvus Corax -> If Twitter, Facebook and Reddit are in their death throes, will people gravitate back to forums? (7/9/2023 0:34:47)
I personally haven’t used twitter or Facebook in years, and just recently abandoned Reddit. I’ve checked out the fediverse, but it doesn’t really appeal to me much either. I wonder if this is a good time to jump back into message forums? The only forum I really have history with is this one, even if I haven’t played an AE game in years. I know people still visit, even if it’s rarely and mostly nostalgia fuel. I don’t know, I have a Reddit sized hole in my mobile adventures and maybe the old forums are due for some love.

Warmonger DragonJax -> RE: If Twitter, Facebook and Reddit are in their death throes, will people gravitate back to forums? (7/16/2023 6:43:59)
Probably not, due to the proliferation of Discord. The forum was a necessity to help the community interact back then but now, it isn't geared up to square of against more efficient application. This was a place that I used to know and love and I do miss it.

Xplayer -> RE: If Twitter, Facebook and Reddit are in their death throes, will people gravitate back to forums? (7/31/2023 0:02:27)
In my experience Facebook is already dead. There's so little actual content from my friends and follows on there that my feed is filled with promoted or algorithmically generated content. I only keep it for FB messenger and for major life updates. Reddit and Twitter have their separate issues but I doubt people will leave them until another centralized hub of information is found. Forums on the other hand have always been for more niche communities. Discord kinda fills that role, but is limited. Similar Warmonger DragonJax said, Discord is where the niche communities can organize in relative obscurity in a somewhat gated (moderated) setting. I don't see the glory days of forums returning any more than the return of AIM or IRC. Perhaps the future information hubs with have features resembling what we used in the past, but I don't see a return to old tech in the cards.

10inchesjedi -> RE: If Twitter, Facebook and Reddit are in their death throes, will people gravitate back to forums? (10/18/2023 16:33:36)
I was thinking about this a couple of days ago. I deleted my Facebook account years ago. Never used Twitter, scroll Instagram just to check webcomics and Reddit is growing similar to what I felt Facebook was like. I used to browse some subs regularly - nosleep, physics, etc - and they all seem so superficial now. There is a lot more content and the quality gets more diluted. So I remembered the forum days. And I do miss them. Discord is just not the same - mainly due to the pacing of "posting". Forums always felt more personal than the current alternatives.

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