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Cube Drone | 1 years ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 It's not Discourse being slow and preachy and irritating that killed the forum, it's modern interconnected mega-sites like Reddit and Twitter and, now, Mastodon, I think.

I can go from zero to having an opinion on r/Pathfinder2E in like 20 seconds, and if I want a place to shoot the shit I have one right here
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Cube Drone | 1 years ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 I run a little Discourse silo for my friends and it handles that great, after a fair bit of tweaking to get it to stop being so damn parochial about what we're allowed to post. I'd say that being slow, preachy, and irritating are absolutely not the right problems to be solving with Discourse in the first place. 

What I think it might actually need is something more akin to federation...
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Inventor | 1 years ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 @6b1b8e04 what about lemmy?
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Cube Drone | 1 years ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 @feebdd59 i tried to join a subreddit on Lemmy once, if they ever get around to letting me in I’ll give it a shot 🙄