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I like Lemmy. It’s the only social media that I contribute to.
Is it a social media if there’s no socialization and it’s anonymous (just like 4chan)? How about a community board/platform?
The word your looking for is froum. Its literally a forum.
The layout is over complicated out the fucking ass. But fundamentally it’s just a over sized forum.
There seems to be a neverending supply of complaints about the size and reach of the Fediverse and I’m just sitting here thinking this is about all the attention I’d like it to ever get. This is fucking nice. Doesn’t monopolize your whole day, always has at least some fresh content, users are free with the upvotes and discourse is downright civil most of the time. Does anybody really want this place to be like Reddit or Instagram?
It should not get like Reddit, but I still wish for more users so that some more specific “subreddits” (what’s the term used here on Lemmy?) are getting more users and more posts.
They’re called “communities” here
I just call them categories, cause with out exception. The terminology in use is basically stupid as fuck
Lemmy and the entire system is basically just a over grown overly complicated for no reason forum.
Each host is just a board, with a bunch of categories in it.
Its fancy they can talk to each other. But frankly it’s almost too much and kinda dumb. Really the whole concept federation feels like a shitty long term idea that’s gonna fucking implode at some point.
Instead of just a reliable known and useful format we took it, beat it half to fucking death and then shoved an unholy abomination into said corpse.
Basically every open source social media platform is the same damn thing. Its just taking a corpo centralized system, attempting to decentralize it only to realize it’s just a clone of a older thing we had before the corpo centralization showed up. But everyone WANTS the corpo centralized system just with out the corpo. So we ignore the fact that the older system exists and it would be better to make a modernized version of that instead of a hack job of the centralized system.
But logical is never been and never will be the thing that happens in reality I find.
We’re all here because A: We’ve put up with enough shit B: we got perma-banned. I’m B. Now I’m picking fights for just that little bit of interaction. It would be in this site’s best interest to generate some attention for me.
