The Future of Forums

i think we have been seeing a little bit of a retreat from the more toxic forms of platform in the form of things like twitter and you know facebook with their relentlessly addictive compulsive feeds. discord servers which were initially just for people to play games together i think have become really popular because they are the latest implementation of that basic forum technology so i think that does indicate that there is still a degree progressive potential although what's missing is some sort of replication of the public sphere element.