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this post was submitted on 23 Aug 2026
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Neat. But it's not pre social media. Social media has been around since the 1980s.
The fediverse has become the central hub for it all due to its nature. Any forums or whatever which want to join in and be a part of it are free to do so. It could perhaps be made easier, but that depends on the technical details of the protocols involved which are still hard to understand.
That's why I alternately call it the "platform web" in which social media stopped running on open and interoperable protocols and started being walled gardens on commercial platforms.
And to your other point - it shouldn't be solely up to forum admins to opt-in to the Fediverse, end users should be able to subscribe to the forums they belong to with Fedi-powered tools.
The Fediverse could and should be the place where all those things can converge but I'm pointing out that it currently is failing to be that.
I used to love the newsgroups and what I liked about reddit was its similarity to it in some ways. this is even more so because rec, alt, etc where in some ways like instances.