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early_riser
early_riser @ early_riser @lemmy.radio
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Internet forums are disappearing because now everything is Reddit and Discord. And that's worrying.

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  • I'd like to see a federated, self hostable forum platform. I believe NodeBB is implementing or has implemented activitypub, but while it's open source it seems even less of a turnkey solution than Lemmy or Mastodon.

    • Internet forums are disappearing because now everything is Reddit and Discord. And that's worrying.

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  • I'm getting two points from the article. One is addressed handily by the Fediverse, the other is not.

    First the centralized (I prefer to say "urbanized") nature of social media means a handful of companies control all the conversations. The Fediverse is a decent (though not perfect) solution to that problem, and I think everyone on here knows that.

    However, the article also talks about the problems with the format of social media, not just who's hosting the platform. On traditional forums, conversations can last for years, but on Reddit, Discord, etc. new topics quickly bury old ones, no matter how lively those old topics are. Sure, you can choose to sort by "last comment" which replicates the traditional forum presentation with topic bumping, but it's not the default, even on Lemmy, so 90% of people won't bother.

    I get to know people on traditional forums, even miss them if they leave, but on Reddit, comments are just disembodied thoughts manifesting in the ether. That may be due to the size of the community rather than the format, though.

    • Regarding posts on Lemmy, is there a way to generate an in-page link to a specific comment in order to reference it from another comment or the OP?

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  • Yes, I am talking about Lemmy posts.

    • How come in most school in the USA (at least mine) they teach Spain Spanish instead of Mexico Spanish? Would not Mexico Spanish be an obvious choice to teach?

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  • Texan here. We learned Mexican Spanish (seseo, yeismo, ustedes for everyone, etc) It's been years since I had to use it for my job but IIRC there's a difference in the subjunctive verbs as well.

    There are also distinct varieties of Spanish spoken in the US that differ from Mexican Spanish. As a general rule, if a common word has a similar-sounding English cognate (often false cognate) the cognate will be used. truck = troca instead of camión, concrete (as in cement) = concreto instead of hormigón, carpet = carpeta instead of alfombra, to park (a car) = parquear instead of estacionar, and so on. This is from my years working as a bilingual call center agent.