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The future of the internet is likely smaller communities, with a focus on curated experiences (www.theverge.com)
submitted 3 days ago by misk@sopuli.xyz to c/technology@lemmy.world
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[โ€“] Fake4000@lemmy.world 82 points 3 days ago (5 children)

Basically forums

[โ€“] JustEnoughDucks@feddit.nl 1 points 1 day ago

Yes, but this time deep web forums that are unsearchable/unindexed so that information is lost forever! (Discord, telegram, matrix)actually that might actually be a return to web 1 forums before search engines were giant and all forum seach engines sucked ass ๐Ÿ˜‚

[โ€“] LiamMayfair@lemmy.sdf.org 14 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Bring them back! I for one would rather use a forum over a fucking Discord server any day of the week. At least forums are open, searchable and discoverable. Good luck finding the answer to a question you have that some poor sod like you may have also asked in a Discord server months or years ago.

[โ€“] Wojwo@lemmy.ml 10 points 2 days ago

God I hate discord.

[โ€“] Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 30 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Maybe weโ€™ll use newsgroups for actually talking to people again

[โ€“] ThePantser@lemmy.world 10 points 3 days ago

Arr, those be the high seas now

[โ€“] misk@sopuli.xyz 19 points 3 days ago (1 children)

The thing is that many people, myself included assumed most were dead and cannibalised by Reddit and Facebook groups. Turns out those specialised places have been running continuously on their own pace. Yeah, threads can still span hundreds of pages but in the end going through them makes you an expert on things overnight ;)

[โ€“] boatswain@infosec.pub 10 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Oh my God, the Something Awful forums are still up: https://forums.somethingawful.com/

[โ€“] Rooty@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I would sooner die than join the ranks of SA goons.

[โ€“] FauxLiving@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

No it's fine, we banned Lowtax

[โ€“] Rooty@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

Too little, too late ๐Ÿคทโ€โ™‚๏ธ

[โ€“] beejjorgensen@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 3 days ago

And mailing lists!