I spent years, but I didn’t find any interesting acquaintances, and I came across such people that I thought I was in the Stone Age, I seemed to be dumb by 25 percent at least when I communicated in discord or I was terribly bored, it’s difficult to explain, but that’s about how I can describe my experience.
Forums do feel a bit dated now. Instead of a forum you could make a Lemmy instance/community.
I’d argue that Lemmy is a type of Internet Forum. At least far more so than Discord is. It’s just far more distributed and less focused on a specific topic, while still maintaining the ability to hold longer form individual conversations that are indexed, open to the public, and searchable.
No need to argue the obvious.
forums still work…
They still work, but voting forms like Lemmy tend to handle larger audiences than non-voting ones.