Is ai killing forums

[nylondude]

Hello I'm starting to think if ai is killing fourms like this I've noticed there being less postings and content i should also contribute more Just hard to find time
As ai can generate images,stories and videos what do you lot think 🤔

 

[TheThirdMan]

Personally, I don't think it's about AI. Forums like this have been declining for a while now.

 

[nylondude]

Personally, I don't think it's about AI. Forums like this have been declining for a while now.

Oh its such a shame why do you think they are declining

 

[WickedTouch]

Oh its such a shame why do you think they are declining

I agree with @TheThirdMan. The forum platform model has been declining since the eruption of the more modern social media platforms. They are driven by more sophisticated engagement algorithms and many offer built in communities that anyone can start and moderate. In addition to that, many use discord and the server model to build communities now, which does avoid some of the algorithm issues of standard social media, but depending upon the community, can have an even faster pace and a higher attention-grabbing aspect to it due to features over algorithms. Forums end up feeling more like a long-form community messaging system, and many people seem to want less of that these days. Reddit has probably been the biggest forum killer. In some ways it is the hybrid between forums and social media. It has a lot of momentum of the standard forum model because it is one platform with many communities. There's just the need for one user account and you have access to communities for just about anything you can think of. Forums still have their place, but they are usually ways for small independent communities to maintain control over the platform they use to communicate. If you use a platform like reddit, for example, to host your community, you must abide by reddit's rules and if reddit changes how the site works, you have to accept it. Forums are generally viewed by new generations as old technology that still works, but is not as feature rich or as snappy as the new stuff.

 

[Vanillaphant]

The fact that more and more people are able to use AI to create the sort of artwork, stories etc that cater to their own specific tastes, seems bound to have some kind of negative impact on fetish forums like this one.

But I tend to agree that it’s the more modern and generic social media platforms that are the bigger problem. And I think one of the other advantages they have is that, such is the way their algorithms work (“maximise engagement!”), they’re able to thrive on negative emotions. Whereas a forum, even if it’s the worst kind of political forum where people are united by some kind of hatred/intolerance, still requires a certain amount of cohesion or what you might loosely call online community spirit to really function properly. Which isn’t to say the TMF doesn’t have that spirit. But in a world where qualities like forgiveness, patience and pragmatism are beginning to feel like they’re from a bygone era, I can’t help thinking that to keep any sort of niche online community healthy and well-integrated is a nigh-on impossible task! Just part of the general atomisation of society, I suppose. Which, of course, is a mere prelude to a more dramatic societal collapse. Then comes the fall of Western Civilisation, others to follow shortly thereafter. Culminating in the extinction of the human race (with Keith Richards being the last to go).

Sleep tight everybody! 😆

 

[isabeau]

"Video killed the radio star"