Looks awesome

Obsidian is so good

Very interesting

Interesting

https://reddark.untone.uk/

Thanks for the context, doesn’t seem as appealing anymore ha ha

Thanks for Rumble and Kick, first time I hear about them

BBC coverage: https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-65855608

Interesting, I might do a similar approach in the coming weeks just to keep an eye on some niche subs

That design brings back to many memories.

undefined> people don’t want to want hours or days with no replies to their post.

True, but at the same time the people replying to them the most are probably the ones that are going to move away, leaving only an empty land lacking actual value. I wasn’t there when Digg died, but I guess it was a similar process.

Very true. I still visit one daily, but that’s really the exception. To complete what we previously said, I guess that instead of 2000s message boards, people will gradually move to Lemmy instances, or other alternatives such as kb.bin. The experience is closer to Reddit, and allows for more conversation potential (threads vs chronological order)

undefined> Perhaps the future is found in the past - people migrating back to self-hosted message boards - there used to be thousands of these back in the 1990s and 2000s. Some of them were run as small businesses, others were run as hobbyist projects by their owners. But I doubt there’s going to be a mass exodus, and unfortunately, centralization has increasingly become the norm for the Internet.

I’ve been looking out for message board forums for some time after realizing that they really felt different from modern Reddit. The appeal is definitely there, and will probably convince at least a small percentage of Reddit’s current user base (which would still mean thousands of users) to move to those pastures.

undefined> G1/htc dream

Just had a tiny wave of nostalgia reading those names. It was a different time indeed.

There’s definitely a forum vibe here. You can already see that the different instancess (lemmy.ml, beehaw.org, lemmy.world, lemmy.one) have their own specificities. Very refreshing.

Definitely. Moreover, the domain name is just awesome

Good luck on that, and thank you for your work (saying this as an Android user, but every platform deserves a nice Lemmy client!)

So it begins…

How surprising