I only frequent this forum.
I used to look at reddit a lot from like 2014 to 2018. These days I only really visit reddit if there’s a specific questions or topic I’m trying to look into.
A lot of forums seem to have been replaced by either subreddits or discord servers. I don’t know if I’m just more aware of it but it seems like reddit’s community has gotten worse and worse since I started using it and I already shared my opinion regarding discord.
This is also the only place where I substantially participate by actually posting stuff myself. On reddit I only ever lurked except for like one post and two comments over the years. I used to share traveling content on instagram but also stopped doing that a couple of years back because I don’t really care about showing these photos to the world. I really only want to share this stuff with a handful of people who now get those pictures on WhatsApp instead.
I made a bsky account but I avoid just randomly looking at the feed to not waste my time and I don’t really know what to post there. I feel like to get any amount of meaningful interaction going I would have to post with a regularity and consistency in a relatively narrow field of interest and that just doesn’t match at all with how my life or my brain work.
What I really like about the IC forums is that, while there is this overarching theme of games and the podcast going on, you also just have a community of interesting people with a broader scope of interests and varied, interesting tastes. Plus the default tone of conversation is neither screaming nor irony and memes which feels like taking a hot bath after a long day.
I’d like to reduce my instagram usage to zero because I just send reels back and forth with one two friends and my brother. I’d be down to replace that with some kind of creative community to get more in touch with my neglected hobbies of making music and writing/reading but I haven’t looked and therefore not found anything like that yet.