I miss traditional message boards. No karma, no sorting algorithms, you just get new topics on top and replies are sorted oldest to newest.
You can have forum threads that go on for decades, but Lemmy’s default sorting system quickly sweeps older content away. I’m aware you can mimic the forum format by selecting the “chat” option in a thread and sorting by old, and you can sort posts by “latest comment” which replicates the old-school forum experience pretty well, but nobody does it that way, so the community behaves in the manner facilitated by the default sorting algorithm that prioritizes new content over old but still relevant content.
I also notice that I don’t pay attention to usernames on Lemmy (or Reddit back when I was on it). They’re just disembodied thoughts floating through the ether. On message boards, I get to know specific users, their personalities and preferences and ups and downs. I notice when certain users don’t post for a while and miss them if they’re gone for too long.
Have the same feeling, I actually thought about making an alternative threadiverse client in the style of phpBB. But I believe there should still be an option to display comments like threads, it is just easier to use I believe. Default should definitely be new though for comments and posts. Its surprising how well threadiverse would be compatible with message boards.
Which also brought up the question with the fediverse being so open how different people interact with it using different clients.
nodeBB is a message board server that has activitypub built in. Not sure what “threadiverse” means though I assume it’s something to do with the Reddit-like format of nested comments. I can’t remember if you can nest nodeBB comment chains, but it does have a voting system that can be disabled.
I put up a nodeBB server for a while earlier this year. Got cold feet about admin responsibilities. I know how to self-host but seeing a list of people’s actual email and knowing I was responsible for keeping it secure scared me away.
Saw people on here calling the mbin, lemmy, piefed part of fediverse “threadiverse” so i have adopted it.
Also saw nodeBB but I didn’t really like the style of it. And I believe that we already have the backend set with lemmy, its just a matter of how the data is being presented. 🤔