While I do agree with the problems identified, I can't help but think they also made forums a lot better. Due to the lower discoverability and higher effort to actually join communities felt more personal. You interacted with smaller groups and came to know specific people. I still have friends from back then.

On larger platforms, I never had that. Even lemmy, which is small in comparison has enough people that I barely even think about specific users. Let alone speak with them on a personal level.

[–] pseudo@jlai.lu 10 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Even lemmy, which is small in comparison has enough people that I barely even think about specific users. Let alone speak with them on a personal level.

I have a different experience but I'm on a very smaller instance than .world. Your instance is big, generalist but their is lots of them that are location- or topic-oriented. Such instances are not only smaller with a more personnalised local thread but the people on it share already identified common points with you.

[–] De_Narm@lemmy.world 8 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Unfortunately, there is no instance matching my interests. There are a number of communities across different instances, but it seems like several people tried to make their own, didn't interact with each other and all of them are long dead.

Once I find such an instance, I'll switch over. I've been meaning to leave .world anyways.

[–] Blaze@feddit.org 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

What are your interests?

[–] De_Narm@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Back on reddit, I mostly interacted with communities relating to JRPGs. There are some communities over here, but at most they post some trailers every now and then. There are also some more focussd communities about Dragon Quest, Xenoblade or SMT - all of them practically dead. I don't think there is an instance.

I could go over to a programming related one, the german instance or even one of the vegan instances for secondary 'interests', but those aren't things I often find myself posting about online to be honest. They seem to be mostly about memes anyways.

[–] Blaze@feddit.org 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

https://lemmy.zip/ could be a good fit for you. It's reliable, transparent (https://lemmy.zip/post/22004722?scrollToComments=true) and hosts communities about gaming and technology.

The main jrpg community is actually hosted there (!jrpg@lemmy.zip )

On the other hand, wherever the communities are, you can just subscribe to them whatever instance you are using, so it's not that big of a deal.

[–] Emperor@feddit.uk 3 points 1 month ago

Perhaps find like-minded folks and start one?

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