news.ycombinator.com aka Hacker News.
tildes.net and www.scienceforums.net are aight.
Also some subreddits and some more niche forums like blenderartists.org etc…
Perhaps ironically, Reddit. It just has so many people that there’s loads of novelty, serendipity, and people that can relate to what I post…
Stack Exchange. Sometimes it’s wacky, but most of the time it’s super interesting to see how people solve personal and professional problems. Also, I like seeing small slices of specialized fields. Like reading stuff about space or math or chemistry…
Do GitHub discussions for bugs I’m hoping will be fixed count as a forum? 😅
Reddit. It just has so many people that there’s loads of novelty, serendipity, and people that can relate to what I post…
Same here. Looks like the positive side of centralisation
Haha that definitely counts.
Hexbear looks interesting
I like to jump between Lemmy and Reddit, and I think these are the only two I use.
Reddit I also love to use those discourse forums of various projects. But thats a different type of forum
Pale Moon and OpenOffice PHPBB-based forums. However, I don’t participate on them at all, I only read.
Away from that, I visit and participate in BAI which is a spanish-centric text/image-board.
lobste.rs is pretty decent for tech topics I find
Reddit*
*I strictly browse using the privacy friendly front-end https://teddit.net/ and I don’t own an account.
Reddit as there are so many people on there. Although I would like to see alternatives like Lemmy take off because its open source and decentralised
Lemmygrad
I am truly addicted to Slashdot.org besides Lemmy.
Btw, fuck Reddit in every possible way.
No one has mentioned metafilter yet??
Its like a reddit that never acquired enough critical mass to become huge and attract shitty people but at the same time attracted enough people to become its own stable little community.
I particularly enjoy that there is a tradition of making high effort posts where people link together several links on a topic/news story into a paragraph about it. Posts often feel like interesting mini blog posts about a topic rather than just a short description and link and I often find myself learning really interesting things reading metafilter.
It is full of generally left leaning people and the site is maintained by paid moderators so I have never run into toxic bullshit there.
Also I think to make an account to post you have to make a one time payment of $5 or so to discourage people from joining who don’t actually want to be there (and discourage trolls).
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NeoGAF, Muusikoiden.net forum and TechBBS
Reddit is decent on occasion, but if I am browsing it, I use a website like libreddit to browse (boost on mobile).
The Hypixel Forums are also ok on rare occasions if you are into hypixel/minecraft, but usually, most of the users have an average braincell count of <2.
But honestly, I just use a instant chat like Discord most of the time
