microblogging is something used on a much more personal level while i think forum style social media is mostly for looking for answers and posting things you do, but microblogging social media sites are for that too. also, this is not meant to be offensive, but i think that since mastodon has been in the works for like a long time, it looks more polished than modern websites, so that can be an advantage it has
phpBB was the best.
The old forums I frequent have all seen their activity drop, which sucks.
I prefer the smaller forums centred around common interests. I made a load of friends through those forums.
I quit reddit recently and it occurred to me that after 10 years, I didn’t make a single friend on reddit.