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Internet forums are disappearing because now everything is Reddit and Discord. And that's worrying.
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This is unironically on reddit right now. People lamenting a place like Lemmy doesn't exist.
I'm less worried about Discord, honestly.
Discord is amazing for a step beyond group messages. I have no idea how it got into a roll as a "community tool".
Yeah, but it shouldn't replace forums.
1000% agree. Like I use it for some spread out family (one server) and college friends. There's <5 people in each. I think eventually forums will adopt the fediverse infrastructure. I'm on an old school forum for my vehicle, and it's great. It's direct out of 2010, it wouldn't suprise me if those kind of sites brought in all the code that the fediverse runs off of. As a casual observer, that's really what lemmy seems like to me: "what if 2005 internet, where people managed their own webpages, but it ran on a common architecture that made it easier to cross-link with other sites if you wanted?"
I don't mind using it for larger teams, it can be great for organised communication such as dev teams!
But it shouldn't replace documentation.
(Also, Discord itself is a proprietary, censoring telemetry wasp nest, your FOSS dev team shouldn't be organised in it but Matrix, XMPP, IRC channels or something else open.)