i’ve been saying this for years. same problem as with facebook groups which is the second most popular place for communities and information.

we’re killing the internet by moving to services not designed for the purpose they’re used for. and no one seems to care about the sacrifice simply because of convenience.

reddit/lemmy has a similar problem as there is really no convenient way to address and identify information due to how all information is centralized in a single “community” where old information is tucked away somewhere no one ever looks. lemmy style data flow is great for current discussion and news, but not for information exchange and historic coverage due to lack of categorical organization.

why are did people entirely leave traditional forums and communication? we’re shooting ourselves in the foot. and all for the sake of user volume and likes. what is the solution? because people who are relatively new to the internet and re-purposed these softwares because they probably didn’t know about the previous centers of information, will never move to something that doesn’t bombard them with instant-information and “complicated and archaic” navigation.