Internet forums are disappearing because now it's all Reddit and Discord. And that is worrying

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This is the issue I've always had with Facebook, Reddit, etc. Conversations completely die the next day and never come back. They don't add anything to long-term knowledge at all.

Also, the Reddit voting system means that people don't even see unpopular downvoted comments, so literally every conversation is just dominated by the status quo. If the majority are wrong, most of them might not even get a chance to reconsider their views because minority dissenters get downvoted and their comments disappear.
 

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Which is why I support closing registration
this is good and bad.

Good-prevents scammers and those even spamming the board
Bad-prevents the forum from growing

maybe placing new members on a sub-forum until you see they actually contribute (don't have to be role-model posters but you know they are not trolling/racists/etc)
 

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When people say conversations die on Facebook, what does that mean? Like the scroll is so endless you can never find it again?
 

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Yea the white man just consolidating hive minds as much as possible
 

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Sad man.
I remember in the early 2000s I used to use a bunch of different sites
Now it's just a handful :sadcam:
 

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Reddit basically took over the entire internet and it is the whitest shyt ever.
:pachaha:

I really, really don't care for it.

I've learned a lot about music hardware that I've purchased and some books I've purchased over the years.

But for discussion ?
Bruh, NO.
 

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Internet Archive Creates Searchable MTV News Database After Paramount Deletes Entire Site​

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NEWS JULY 2, 2024 7:55 PM BY DANIELLE CHELOSKY

Last year MTV News was shuttered amid layoffs at parent company Paramount. And last week, former MTV News editor (and Stereogum contributor) Patrick Hosken noticed that the music publication’s website had been taken down, erasing decades of celebrated music journalism. Now the Internet Archive has come to the rescue with a searchable MTV News database.

The database has 460,575 web pages previously published at mtv.com/news dating back to the website’s inception in 1996. Paramount also deleted content from its CMT, Comedy Central, and TV Land websites. “As part of broader website changes across Paramount, we have introduced more streamlined versions of our sites, driving fans to Paramount+ to watch their favorite shows,” a Paramount Global rep said in a statement. You can find the MTV News database here.

Last month, Shari Redstone’s National Amusements Inc. (which controls Paramount Global) called off merger talks with David Ellison’s Skydance Media (which produces movie franchises like Mission: Impossible and Star Trek) and is now reportedly looking to cut $500 million in annual costs while it explores selling parts of its media empire. It’s unclear if Paramount plans to sell MTV or its other cable channels like Nickelodeon, but today it was revealed that the company may offload BET for $1.6 billion to that network’s CEO and CC Capital’s Chinh Chu. Meanwhile, after Barry Diller’s IAC emerged yesterday as a possible new buyer of Paramount, the merger with Skydance is apparently happening after all.

Last year Paramount Global’s long-term debt was $14.6 billion and a few weeks ago its stock hit an all time low. Despite a faltering cable business, however, Paramount also owns prized assets CBS and Paramount Pictures. It is also seeking to merge its Paramount+ with another streaming service like Warner Bros. Discovery’s Max.

MTV was launched in 1981 by Warner-Amex Satellite Entertainment, which was sold to a collective that included Paramount, then called Viacom, in 1983. Redstone’s father Sumner’s National Amusements took control of Viacom in 1987. MTV dropped “Music Television” from its logo in 2010, but it continued to produce music journalism until MTV News shut down. The MTV Video Music Awards returns for its 40th anniversary on Sept. 10 while the MTV Movie & TV Awards is not happening this year.
 
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