• LunchMoneyThief@links.hackliberty.org
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    3 months ago

    Millennials naively assumed that the following generations would just naturally be as computer literate as they are. We’re dealing with people now who think that wi-fi is internet service.

    The author of the article is specifically referring to bulletin board forums when describing forums. Link aggregators like reddit are not forums. They are comments sections.

    • db0@lemmy.dbzer0.comOP
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      3 months ago

      I am the author. Heard you were talking shit…

      I kid, I kid :D

      I insist that in their current form, reddit (and lemmy) can serve as both forums and link aggregators with comment sections.

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        3 months ago

        Well anyway I enjoyed the read.

        I am only here actually because proper forums have yet to figure out federation. As soon as Discourse or Flarum or whatever figure out full federation, I’m gone (over to them).

        Specifically, I prefer chronologically sorted posts and the absence of voting systems.

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          3 months ago

          You can actually do that on lemmy already like so. Sorting by new doesn’t use the voting. Hell you can even sort them like a forum by sorting by “new comments”

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            3 months ago

            I get it, and thanks for the advice. But I dislike what voting does to spaces like this as a matter of principle. It is a social consensus reinforcement mechanism, even if it is implemented with the best of intentions.