Re: FSN fundraising/membership?
Posted: Tue May 10, 2022 6:52 am
I'm just now reading this thread (with interest since I just started a new forum).Legio wrote: ↑Sun Jan 23, 2022 2:56 am
I miss these days too. However, I can pinpoint the exact point when ALL forum participation went down everywhere. I still manage a few different forums and they all went down when Facebook and social media started. Most of the forums are now in Facebook groups, Instagram. Twitter took a lot of traffic because people spent so much time there they had no more to give to forums. Nowadays, if there are no videos and if they last more than 30 seconds, people don't come or stay. Only the hardcore stay.
I think we're seeing the pendulum swing back to forums, because people are leaving Facebook (like I did). When Facebook and other big tech social media platforms got "woke" and became defacto agents of the government (admittedly!) engaging in censorship, the exodus began. They overplayed their hand.
I was a member of multiple FB groups. I started several groups and pages on FB. I've abandoned them all. And, I'm seeing a resurgence of INDEPENDENT forums.