edit: I ain’t complaining. If reddit engagement is dying and forums are taking it’s place, Forums are more private and I generally hate reddit :)

I want to know just who these people are? I mean, the success of forums have been a surprise to me. And recently, in my experience Tech reddits (linux distros and such) haven’t been getting as much attention as they used to get.

If I have a question regarding MX Linux or someone has asked a question regrading it, it seems reasonable to me that I would find it on Reddit. Since there are generally more people on reddit than on forums and reddit is like a super forum with almost everything under the sun attached to it and showing up in your feed. So, I might not be passionate enough to just stay on MX forum, but I will get enough variety on reddit that I will be able to stay interested and browse it more.

I don’t know enough about MX Linux to frequent the forums, not do I want to know/read every small issue someone else has. But, if I come across a post on reddit while I am just browsing through my feed, I will make sure I try to help them as much as possible, but yeah, I don’t see myself going to forums to try and help people. So, I don’t get why forums are so successful.

Are there really so many people to frequent forums and provide answers to people who seem to be in trouble. I love MX but it’s not my passion and frankly, I am surprised that there are many people for whom it seems like it is.

  • krei [it/its]@hexbear.netEnglish
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    1 year ago

    I peruse ModWiggler occasionally (bbs forum for synthesizer enthusiasts), more often since the Reddit blackout stuff when I stopped using it.

    And I am actually quite pleasantly surprised by the quality of discussion and how many people are actually open to more radical ideologies. Way more personal and pleasant than subreddits for the topic. In fact, most synth enthusiasts I know are leftists. I don’t really know why.

    I think there is an argument to be made that communities that are smaller and harder to enter have better social health.

    Also, I think forum users tend to be older, so you get less edgy teens. I don’t trust surveys. I think most people I interact with on Reddit are teens. Surely they wouldn’t lie about their age, right?