@lina@tech.lgbtbring back forums
you aren't supposed to have a single identity online
communities shouldn't demand you let a vc-funded company have your mobile phone number
you don't have to pay $100/yr [or whatever it is] for features that every forum had for years, or if it didn't it's for a reason
your group of friends or multiple-thousand-people community won't disappear because of the failure of the aforementioned vc-funded company
even if the group dissolves you will still be able to find the useful tips you used to share
@linathis is the first post i had to mute because of all the notifications about a boost..
@breadcat@app.wafrn.net@lina they're still there
@lina@breadcat sadly, pretty much every hobby of mine that existed on forums before is now on discord
and i do have discord but the platform has problems
@breadcat@app.wafrn.net@lina yeahhh that's an understatement, at least theyve got an account switcher on desktop now and modded clients (legcord my beloved)
@lina@tech.lgbt I've wanted to start a forum for ages, just never found a good place to do so
@lina @whitequark
They have played us for absolute fools
@lina@tech.lgbt i've got some more
information shouldn't be behind a sign-up wall
discord isn't documentation (forums aren't either but it's a whole lot better)
we shouldn't all depend on US-based services (especially considering what's going on now, but it's nothing new)
@lina Both social media services and forums feel like public infrastructure to me and it’s something that states/countries should finance. We’d all be better off.
@lina I highly recommend using discourse.org as your forum software. It's easy to set up on whatever hardware you want, has great moderation tools, and works great on desktop, mobile and wherever. I've been the admin for a couple of discourse based forums for close to a decade now and could not be happier with it.
Any good ways to search for active forums by topic and activity, on the web? they are a different beast compared to other sites...
@VanessaNightshade@beige.party@lina
Phpbb was peak internet.
@lina I'd agree that you shouldn't have a single identity online, because you don't have a single identity offline, either.
Nobody "is the same person" while cuddling in bed with their spouse as when their boss says "come to my office", just to take a couple of examples.
Here's something I wrote back when Google Plus existed, and was trying to enforce a "real names" policy (or back during the NymWars, for those who remember that word…): https://kagan.mactane.org/blog/2011/07/17/how-many-identites-does-a-single-person-have/
@alice@mk.nyaa.place@lina@tech.lgbt only if it's less janky than discourse :3
@alice@mk.nyaa.place@lina@tech.lgbt or reddit and its clones, ig the closest "mainstream" thing we have to forums nowadays is that