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Why Forums Are Better Than Social Media
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2024-11-01 at 9:25 AM UTCForums are better than social media in every way shape and form. Here is why.
1: Forums are slower-paced. Due to the thread and forum format, a conversation can be started and carried on for years, ebbing and flowing through time, changing along the way as old people leave and new ones come. These conversations require you to make a post on a thread that is directly related either to the entire thread as a whole or to the last post(s). This encourages the user to engage more with the thread instead of just randomly posting some bullshit and the logging off, like how social media is used.
2: Forums have more niche communities. The people on Instagram don't all have common interests with one another, they all just use Instagram. However, on a forum like https://www.politicsforum.org/forum/ everyone on this forum is interested in a variety of political topics, ranging from economics to philosophy to, you guessed it, politics, and they are all able to congregate on this site and discuss these things with other likeminded people.
3: No tracking. No ads.
4: Only the best threads last a long time, bad threads are "naturally selected" for and eventually become dead threads.The following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire! -
2024-11-01 at 10:07 AM UTCISS is designed for pseudonymous variable length discussion. Discussion is structured into threads pertaining to a topic, threads are organized under forums or sections. Members post under pseudonyms. If you've used a typical webforum like vBulletin or PHPBB you've seen the basic model that ISS follows.
This model of discussion has found success in both broad general communities and narrow specialty discussion. Unlike blogging platforms, direct continued discussion is prioritized over short form commentary on longer articles. Post length limits are typically liberal and support both short and long form response. The pseudonymous mode allows users to develop a voice and develop ideas over a length of time while providing many of the social advantages of anonymous posting.
This model is generally not well equipped for "personal broadcast" sorts of communication (e.g. the use case served by Twitter or Facebook) as the thread rather than the individual user is the central unit of organization. Long form publication with little or no discussion is typically better served by the myriad blogging options available today. While ISS can easily facilitate reddit/HN style link aggregation or question/answer use cases, it does not make special affordance for these and they may be better served by other software.The following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire! -
2024-11-01 at 10:24 AM UTCIt was better in the late 90s early 2000s, alot busier I could be more racist and feel less guilt about it.
Fuck you diversity.
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I still miss geocities with all the shitty little gifs. And pop art animations and shit. -
2024-11-01 at 10:31 AM UTCYahoo did more cultural vandalism than ISIS when they deleted Geocities. There were a lot of amazing, significant and valuable pages and information there.
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2024-11-01 at 11:04 AM UTC
Originally posted by Kingoftoes Forums are better than social media in every way shape and form. Here is why.
1: Forums are slower-paced. Due to the thread and forum format, a conversation can be started and carried on for years, ebbing and flowing through time, changing along the way as old people leave and new ones come. These conversations require you to make a post on a thread that is directly related either to the entire thread as a whole or to the last post(s). This encourages the user to engage more with the thread instead of just randomly posting some bullshit and the logging off, like how social media is used.
2: Forums have more niche communities. The people on Instagram don't all have common interests with one another, they all just use Instagram. However, on a forum like https://www.politicsforum.org/forum/ everyone on this forum is interested in a variety of political topics, ranging from economics to philosophy to, you guessed it, politics, and they are all able to congregate on this site and discuss these things with other likeminded people.
3: No tracking. No ads.
4: Only the best threads last a long time, bad threads are "naturally selected" for and eventually become dead threads.
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2024-11-01 at 11:05 AM UTCFuys BBS's are really cool in 2024 they have code that displays stuff from a telnet BBs on a html webpage with embedded consoles and shit there is a lot of potential combined with a software like this instead of their generic CLICK HERE FORUM and it's just an RSS feed of their BBS because why code a forum when BBS broadcasting exists already
https://www.telnetbbsguide.com/bbs/realitycheck-bbs/ -
2024-11-01 at 11:17 AM UTCI like this video, i really want to run one for shits. I need to sit-down and get acquainted with connecting and amassing a list of cool operational bbss
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2024-11-01 at 1:09 PM UTCOp is fat
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2024-11-01 at 2:01 PM UTC
Originally posted by Kingoftoes Forums are better than social media in every way shape and form. Here is why.
1: Forums are slower-paced. Due to the thread and forum format, a conversation can be started and carried on for years, ebbing and flowing through time, changing along the way as old people leave and new ones come. These conversations require you to make a post on a thread that is directly related either to the entire thread as a whole or to the last post(s). This encourages the user to engage more with the thread instead of just randomly posting some bullshit and the logging off, like how social media is used.
not true.
if you go to a serious forum such as Bob is the Oil Guy (where else can a middle aged man go) threads get locked after a certain set time. many serious forums re like that.
also plenty of them censor all the "hurtful" words such as 'fag'. which can be pretty funny for a forum like BITOG whenever FAG branded bearings were mentioned. -
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2024-11-01 at 2:45 PM UTCYoure both fat keeo whining
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