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FediverseEnglish • 3 months ago

How did we move from forums to Reddit, Facebook groups, and Discord?

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How did we move from forums to Reddit, Facebook groups, and Discord?

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FediverseEnglish • 3 months ago

From the first moment I first went online in 1996, forums were the main place to hang out. In fact the very first thing I did was join an online forum run by the Greek magazine "PC Master" so I could directly to my favourite game reviewers (for me it was Tsourinakis, for those old [...]

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There are several forum software companies working on ActivityPub support, I know both Discourse and NodeBB have been working on it for a while
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  Indeed, hopefully they can complete compatibility at some point

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