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[Lambhalf]

I remember the good old days on an unofficial Kingdom Hearts forum. I don't remember any toxicity on forums.

 

[Happosai]

If toxicity is the reason, social media hottake platforms would have died a long time ago.

It's the goldfish brained 8 second cycle delivery. Forums require a little more thought and reading fundamentals.

I thought I was the only one using the goldfish brain analogy. You are correct. Social media lures the goldfish in with a flash of glittery, quick-edited 5-second blobs of meaningless 'content'.

They'd (goldfish brains) mentally overload upon realizing you have to read, discuss only using basic typing and reading comprehension skills on forums.

 

[Porcile]

Online communities became a byword for hiveminds. Very few places out there where you can have a dissenting voice about something, even if it is something you actually like but want to be critical about. You'll just get shot down.

 

[adamsapple]

Forums died because of instant mediums like Discord.

 

[Woggleman]

Facebook' Twitter and Tik Tok are even more toxic.

 

[Platinumstorm]

reddit is all encompassing; easy to access from mobile.

Forums have never been very easy to access from mobile; lots of security issues versus reddit as well.

 

[shoegaze]

Nothing to do with toxicity whatever that means. All forums had moderation and some had more of it and some had less, so people could choose their favourite sweet spot.

It's mobile phones - in the hands of billions of people. You can't spend time researching and debating on a forum in-depth like we used to, because the small screen has it's limitations compared to a pc in 90's and 00's.

And the contingent of people who had PC's and internet at that time were smaller and more of a different breed compared to the average internet user as of now, with a phone in their pocket.

And probably because big corporations turned internet into a Cable TV v2. with reactionary surface level comments under the content you tune into - contrasting to a free communication tool as it used to be.

 

[Quartermaster]

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