It seems that the last point has been solved a few days ago by unlisting Beehaw and Lemmy.ml from suggested instances on join-lemmy.org

I’m a fan of Beehaw, but some people don’t really like their policies about being a “being nice”.

Nothing, and that prevents one instance to claim a specific community. Time will filter out the best of those similar communities.

Thank you for this, looks like a solid foundation for that video

Please take care of yourself first!

https://reddark.untone.uk/

Thanks for the context, doesn’t seem as appealing anymore ha ha

Great!

Thanks for Rumble and Kick, first time I hear about them

Damn, Streetlamp LeMoose, thank you for that memory

BBC coverage: https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-65855608

Interesting, I might do a similar approach in the coming weeks just to keep an eye on some niche subs

https://lemmy.one/post/43976?scrollToComments=true

Good news overall

That design brings back to many memories.

Very true. I still visit one daily, but that’s really the exception. To complete what we previously said, I guess that instead of 2000s message boards, people will gradually move to Lemmy instances, or other alternatives such as kb.bin. The experience is closer to Reddit, and allows for more conversation potential (threads vs chronological order)

undefined> Perhaps the future is found in the past - people migrating back to self-hosted message boards - there used to be thousands of these back in the 1990s and 2000s. Some of them were run as small businesses, others were run as hobbyist projects by their owners. But I doubt there’s going to be a mass exodus, and unfortunately, centralization has increasingly become the norm for the Internet.

I’ve been looking out for message board forums for some time after realizing that they really felt different from modern Reddit. The appeal is definitely there, and will probably convince at least a small percentage of Reddit’s current user base (which would still mean thousands of users) to move to those pastures.

Probably following the Apollo announce. Good luck with that, it’s probably too late.

Same here as well, really enjoying it so far.

There’s definitely a forum vibe here. You can already see that the different instancess (lemmy.ml, beehaw.org, lemmy.world, lemmy.one) have their own specificities. Very refreshing.