• Nalivai@lemmy.world
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      3 hours ago

      It was so great, people ditched it immediately the second any alternative arrived.

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        I mean the masses are pretty fucking stupid and I don’t think following them is a good strategy for life.

        Also, reddit was and somehow still is pretty popular and stack exchange is being killed by AI not discord, so that’s not really accurate anyways.

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        maybe you are right. i think people just forgot about it because of all the noise and because all these new platforms force bad habits. just imagine if those platforms didn’t exist where would openai and anthropic be without all that stackexchange/stackoverflow data scraping.

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      8 hours ago

      Discord became big because of the seamless audio / video / screen sharing. Forums are not even in the same stratosphere.

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        7 hours ago

        i know, but for casual conversations and banter and a place where to store some knowledge about some topics forums were awesome.