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Google, then vs now (lemmy.world)

submitted 5 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 5 months ago (1 children)

This is what worries me.

Forums were some of the best places to find specific information on niche topics. Were moderated and controlled in such a way to maintain the information and improve when new information was discovered.

But then social media killed many forums. Along with capitalism.

Many forums emulated social media, until they were no longer forums.

Others went the way of more ads than real posts.

All had their readership decrease, and many lost ability to host due to that.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago

And so much of that info is now potentially locked up in discord servers that you can't just view on a browser. You gotta join their server, pick the right roles and hope they actually keep their old troubleshooting solutions archived or ask about your problem and get yelled at for asking something that's already been asked because discord search function sucks.