Decentralized reddit is what we had before reddit. Small forums ran for small interests groups. I still use those. Bluelight is more interesting than Nostr even just reading, no posting.
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That's too much decentralization tho. Reddit was a place all the smart people could have found each other. It had its momentum stopped when maybe 10% of smart people in the anglosphere and 0.1% of smart people from elsewhere had migrated onto it but that was already enough to make it dumbfoundingly powerful. A nostr version of reddit that can't have its momentum stopped might go even further
Reddit was the forum killer. I think forums potentially come back to kill Reddit tho.
People are sick of half the world popping in to their forum lol. (Discord sort of tried to answer this?). Still think reanimated forums is a possible future. Barrier of entry is actually seeking and joining. ยฏโ \โ _โ (โ ใโ )โ _โ /โ ยฏ
Interesting people don't spend much time online these days IMO. Most useful info is on YouTube or small forums/blogs.
It didn't kill forums. They survived. But it's a good idea to archive them. There are a couple of forums that have been down for 20 years, and I read the archives. The discussion quality is better than anything on reddit.
Search is not that big of a barrier of entry. Biggest one is prerequisite knowledge. Even if you find good info, you can't make use of it without related experience. E.g. a forum for film photography will confuse most people without knowing the techniques. So most people will stay away from the forum. The notion that half the world will be brought to that level of awareness in any advanced subject is completely ludicrous. Discord doesn't solve anything (unless you count talking to lolis as a problem)