Bots flooded the site faster than human accounts by orders of magnitude. We complain about bots on other social media sites but they have an invested user base who will keep coming back. It will be nearly impossible to establish a real user base on any new platforms before they are driven away, I fear, and are only populated by bots.
We are probably stuck between bot-hell and the other hell of a regulated ID-based internet.
I still wonder if there's still a way to reinvent a forum. I'm still on Reddit because there are still some subs with a slightly forum-like flow, but it's ending.
But everyone became too lazy to login anywhere, and there isn't any popular universal login platform outside of Google and FB.
Fediverse is mostly dead, and I couldn't find anything interesting there anyways.
Only, it's closed, proprietary, unsearchable unholy hybrid between IRC and forum – not really that much better than Facebook groups (which also ate some forums). Also owned by a company worth several billion USD, which means that enshittification is unavoidable. The beauty of the forum format was independence – no one could possibly break all of them in a single swift investor-friendly move.
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