Just signed up for both. No idea who to follow on mastodon I much prefer the subreddit format over the follow this person to see everything they post format.
Old forums didn't have an upvote system to hide posts. They had actual moderators who kept politics and religion out of most topics.
Exactly why I still use old forums and don't talk about them on Reddit. Redditors will ruin it, look at arstech forums now it's the same as Reddit with the same comments posted here.
Reddit is threaded. Most forum software is not. I'm sure there's a plugin now for you to upvote posts. You still had the post report button which went straight to the mods. No different than how Reddit works.
A closer analogy, to be pedantic, is that Reddit is a dumbed down Slashdot. Which had both taxonomical post voting (not just up/down) and threaded conversation. It just added the subreddit concept.
Without voting, and complete anarchy, you had Usenet. So you had the 'subreddit' concept with each news group. Discussion was threaded. (Unlike forums, which were linear).
But all of the above systems. Usenet, Slashdot, Forums, Reddit are completely different than what Twitter introduced to the world.
I have no problem sharing my forums on Reddit. I don't see what they're able to do. Especially with the taxonomy set up in the sub-forums and how most are moderated: https://www.vwvortex.com/forums/
Spam the 5x112 Classifieds with politics? It'll last an hour at most before a ban hammer.
I always find it funny when vwvortex is dragged out as an example of a good forum system, for no other fact that i have found it as a great resource for all kinds of things over the last 20 years or so, and have never owned, nor seriously considered, buying a vw.
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u/ranchwriter Feb 17 '25
Just signed up for both. No idea who to follow on mastodon I much prefer the subreddit format over the follow this person to see everything they post format.