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Reddit / lemmy vs Old internet forums
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this post was submitted on 07 Sep 2023
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I never really got the distinction. Reddit was just a massive forums with a lot of subforums. So yeah, there's the difference that it's centralized, but that was a pro in my book.
Now Lemmy/Kbin etc. seem to do the best of both worlds - centralized and decentralized at the same time.
So IMO yes, these sites are the successors. Not Discord, though, that's a non-indexable chat app.
I think a big difference is the temporary nature of threads on Lemmy/Reddit. On forums, a new reply pushes a thread back to the front of the page, which leads to discussions that can go on for months or years. On Lemmy, a discussion is active for a few days at most, with the exception of stickied threads. It leads to a different discussion culture and I do sometimes miss that aspect of forums.
As a general rule, I think the things that tend to happen on each kind of Internet platform with user-generated content are mainly the result of how that platform is structured: which posts are shown to whom under what conditions, etc. These are just some examples of this phenomenon.