Comment on How can I find forums about specific things?

Nikls94@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• hisao@ani.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  It is what it feels like, but it’s not really 100% this way (yet). It is a bad self-reinforcing cognitive bias: we think “forums are dead, that’s why we stick to the sitename” instead of actually finding dozens of still alive forums and going there, in turn sitename gets more populated while forums feel more dead. But there are still plenty alive. Also, there are relatively new kinds of forums which sometimes work very well for their niche, like Discourse communities for example.

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• Darkenfolk@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I mean, a quick search with “football forum“ could’ve easily shown you that you are wrong.

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  • thepineapplejumped@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Football does indeed seem to have some active forums that appear to be what I sort of had in mind. Feel silly for not asking of a better example!

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• thepineapplejumped@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I think the claim that the internet is dead outside of that is not true. I just think that the way in which we discover things has changed so substantially that it seems that outside of the big players it is hard to find stuff.

  For example if you google nostupidquestions forum this community does not come up. Even you search for nostupidquestions community it does not come up within the first 3 pages. Since searching is the gatekeeper for most discovery of new places on the internet we find new things less.

  That’s just an example of why it is hard to find slightly nice things nowadays.

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• WeirdGoesPro@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  There’s Hoffman music forum. Private torrent sites have great forums for different genre’s of art. There are forums for writers, queer people, furries, and almost every other subculture out there.

  Whachutalkin’ about, Willis?

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