I block politics, news and star trek.

Then the rest of the content is visible

Indeed: https://lemmy.fediverse.observer/stats

And modern forums, FWIW, have threaded comment chains.

Do you have a few examples of modern, active forums ? Curious to have a see what this looks like

Reddit is very quiet lately, probably due to school breaks

713 monthly active users for Mbin : https://mbin.fediverse.observer/stats

135 for Piefed: https://piefed.fediverse.observer/stats

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You’re one of us too!

But none y’all want to do that, because that means leaving the mental model of centralization at the door.

Some instances do, especially language-focused ones like feddit.org

c/vegan is big and active and it’s on .world.

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Ni, but the UX is shit, and the value proposution is so poorly thought out that you can’t really sell people on it who aren’t already ready to buy in.

• no ads
• no sponsored posts
• officially supported mobile clients
• clean Web interface
• transparency on moderation actions

https://fedia.io for people who want to give it a try

https://github.com/jwr1/interstellar for an app

That’s the thing. The “better” tool isn’t right in front of me. OP didn’t know about it.

People mentioned Mbin in this very thread

And if they did, they would have to do the whole “which instance to join” dance, again.

https://fedia.io

And after they joined the instance, they would have to find a mobile app to use. (oh, oh, there isn’t one)

https://github.com/jwr1/interstellar

And it’s Estonian

Nowadays I give

• https://discuss.online/ if you’re American
• https://sopuli.xyz/ if you’re European
• https://vger.app/ if you want an app
• Feel free if you have any questions

https://reddit.com/comments/1hmf2uy/comment/m4odk1u

What I want to avoid is “hey, select an instance from this menu”. “Wtf is an instance?”

Indeed, so just give them a link to an instance. Nowadays I give

• https://discuss.online/ if you’re American
• https://sopuli.xyz/ if you’re European
• https://vger.app/ if you want an app
• Feel free if you have any questions

https://reddit.com/comments/1hmf2uy/comment/m4odk1u

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Discuss.online is US based

[email protected] has a thread about jury nullification