So basically I’ve pretty much stopped using reddit as I’ve noticed it getting worse and worse over the past few years, and probably even longer. The main thing that kept me on there was the subreddit for my favorite sports team, but I’ve since found a pretty active online forum that sort of re-creates the enjoyment I got out of discussing them on reddit. I’d like to find something like to simulate the rest of reddit too. I used to love posting on certain forums back in the day, but I don’t even know where to start looking. Something like a general use forum, preferably populated by millenials, with discussions about whatever. Movies, music, pop culture, sports, politics, random internet bullshit, whatever. I think it would be great to kind of re-create the sense of seeing new stuff like on reddit, but with a much smaller community.
EDIT: I understand that Lemmy can be viewed as an answer to this question, but it’s not for me. I’m looking for an actual forum, with a sense of community. The whole decentralization aspect of the Feidverse seems great to prevent enshittification, or to prevent a billionaire from buying and tanking the place, but I don’t really see it ever appealing to normal, non tech savvy people.
It’s a community choice. Has nothing to do with “tech savvy”. There are generalist communities, language orientated communities, activity orientated communities, and many more. Presenting it as a “technological choice” is just a meme at this point. It’s like saying “I want to live Paris because they speak French and love the night life” vs “you know what, I like beaches more and the island life where people are more about easy living, so I’ll go to Zanzibar”. But people frame it as if they had to choose the city because of the altitude, soil composition, which hemisphere it is on, the greenhouse ppms, and the wetbulb temperature. And then it’s repeated ad nauseam to keep the meme alive.
Stop helping Facebook and Reddit by framing it as a technological choice. It’s a cultural one. “idgaf” --> take a generalist website. “I’m queer and it’s important” --> LGBTQIA+ website. “bits and bytes for me please” --> technological website. “I just can’t stop cumming” --> NSFW website.