PadrePio Posted April 2, 2022 Share Posted April 2, 2022 are there similar forum with a good membership? this one doesn't have a good membersip Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nihil Obstat Posted April 2, 2022 Share Posted April 2, 2022 Message boards have been slowly dying for years now. Try Catholic Diocese of Discord. https://discord.gg/wFsqhfY6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PadrePio Posted April 3, 2022 Author Share Posted April 3, 2022 catholic forums or something like that were there 2 years back..That had a decent membership Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dUSt Posted April 8, 2022 Share Posted April 8, 2022 On 4/2/2022 at 4:47 AM, PadrePio said: are there similar forum with a good membership? this one doesn't have a good membersip Go recruit people to come here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted April 19, 2022 Share Posted April 19, 2022 On 4/2/2022 at 8:17 PM, PadrePio said: are there similar forum with a good membership? this one doesn't have a good membersip Hi PP - could you state what you consider to be a 'good' membership please? Regards........Barb Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pooooma Posted April 28, 2022 Share Posted April 28, 2022 Almost a month late, but CAF had excellent membership and engagement, but even it couldn’t survive. The other Catholic forum I’m on is active but specialized to a very particular field, and I bet the vast majority of other Catholic forums are either dead, dying, esoteric or quite insular. Since it isn’t 2010 anymore, this is as good as it gets. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dUSt Posted April 28, 2022 Share Posted April 28, 2022 We should rebrand ourselves as an alternative Catholic social media option to all the woke giant ones out there. Wait. Elon Musk just bought Twitter. Darn. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dUSt Posted April 28, 2022 Share Posted April 28, 2022 On 4/2/2022 at 4:47 AM, PadrePio said: are there similar forum with a good membership? this one doesn't have a good membersip You mispelled "phorum". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pooooma Posted April 28, 2022 Share Posted April 28, 2022 10 minutes ago, dUSt said: We should rebrand ourselves as an alternative Catholic social media option to all the woke giant ones out there. Wait. Elon Musk just bought Twitter. Darn. Which brings up a genuine point if you want people to use forums more, talk to friends of yours who have a poor relationship with social media and get them to make the switch. I get my fix on sites like this and generally only visit maybe 20 times a year. It’s much healthier and generally more meaningful than 1000 hours on Facebook. Additionally, if you look at CAF in its latter days, it was basically Facebook or Reddit with a Catholic theme, complete with allegations of abusive moderation and comment threads consisting of hundreds of pages of “no u haha” or “you cant be one of us unless you adopt [ridiculous opinion] and if you disagree you’re basically stupid.” Its high engagement wasn’t necessarily a good thing, as perhaps *most* of that engagement was garbage. Engagement here is low, but there are actual substantive conversations on the rare occasion two+ people log on in the same week. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dUSt Posted April 28, 2022 Share Posted April 28, 2022 Plus, I just redesigned the place! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pooooma Posted April 28, 2022 Share Posted April 28, 2022 And it looks great! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nihil Obstat Posted April 28, 2022 Share Posted April 28, 2022 Honestly there is a really good argument to be made that the forum model is a less toxic form of social media. As a harm reduction strategy. I am increasingly coming to think that the downsides of social media are far outweighing its acknowledges benefits. It still has its problems, but I think the sense of community and the longer form of interaction is a big plus. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dUSt Posted April 28, 2022 Share Posted April 28, 2022 35 minutes ago, Nihil Obstat said: Honestly there is a really good argument to be made that the forum model is a less toxic form of social media. As a harm reduction strategy. I am increasingly coming to think that the downsides of social media are far outweighing its acknowledges benefits. It still has its problems, but I think the sense of community and the longer form of interaction is a big plus. Exactly! No secret algorithms to force feed stuff onto your timeline. No advertisements for things that your phone overheard you talking about. Now if we can just convince all the Catholics in the world to spend less time on FB, Twitter, Instagram, and TikTok, and more time at the OG forums that have been around longer than any of them! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nihil Obstat Posted April 28, 2022 Share Posted April 28, 2022 If you can convince all the Catholics in the world to do literally anything, then I will follow you right to the gates of Mordor. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MIKolbe Posted April 29, 2022 Share Posted April 29, 2022 On 4/27/2022 at 11:46 PM, dUSt said: Plus, I just redesigned the place! meh Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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