bmaxv@noc.socialtoFediverse@lemmy.ml•Lemmy shows how Fediverse-connected message boards can work. So is it time for a Fediverse-connected general purpose message board platform (like phpBB)? Is anyone working on this?
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1 year ago@ajsadauskas My impression is that people stay on those platforms because they want to. Moving the entire network from those to fediverse one is something they have to decide.
It’s something that surprised me when I looked into #linux development, different groups hardly even use the same kind of medium. E.g. mailing lists, forums, custom bug tracker… Those were chosen for individual reasons that haven’t changed.
The fragmentation goes through the fabric of groups, not just their output.
@Hamartiogonic @SenatorBumCuckets
Interesting, I’m actually thinking that the character limit forces the user to put certain thoughts and pieces into paragraphs.
It becomes easier to interact with, e.g. disagreeing with opinions expressed in *one* easily linked to piece of the whole, as having to “disagree with *some unspecified* parts of a monolithic text”.
But I do understand that people don’t like to be… Aggressively encouraged to be brief.