The relief when I open up Lemmy or Mastodon. It feels like coming home to an experience I didn’t realise I was missing. Lemmy has grown enough now that I can look at my feed throughout the day and there will be interesting posts, all with engaging comments and conversations. It’s like the internet I grew up on, only better: it’s ran by the people, for the people.
Obviously, that doesn’t mean the fedi isn’t plagued with issues. But it feels fundamentally more culturally healthy than whatever the fuck is going on in big corpo social media.
The last remaining bastion of Web 1.0. The forums that had held out got absorbed by Reddit. Its fall seemed to crush all that was left.
What the Fediverse is building is over infrastructure that can last. It’s the first chance at something permanent.
there are still some traditional forums around, relevant, and pretty much the de-facto global community hub, e.g. boardgamegeek.com
To those interested, there’s !Forums@sh.itjust.works too =)