Millennials naively assumed that the following generations would just naturally be as computer literate as they are. We're dealing with people now who think that wi-fi is internet service.

The author of the article is specifically referring to bulletin board forums when describing forums. Link aggregators like reddit are not forums. They are comments sections.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I am the author. Heard you were talking shit...

I kid, I kid :D

I insist that in their current form, reddit (and lemmy) can serve as both forums and link aggregators with comment sections.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Well anyway I enjoyed the read.

I am only here actually because proper forums have yet to figure out federation. As soon as Discourse or Flarum or whatever figure out full federation, I'm gone (over to them).

Specifically, I prefer chronologically sorted posts and the absence of voting systems.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

You can actually do that on lemmy already like so. Sorting by new doesn't use the voting. Hell you can even sort them like a forum by sorting by "new comments"

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

I get it, and thanks for the advice. But I dislike what voting does to spaces like this as a matter of principle. It is a social consensus reinforcement mechanism, even if it is implemented with the best of intentions.