Googling has become like SQL to me xd
Try searching this in Google: "football" + "forum" -site:reddit.com
this post was submitted on 07 Jul 2025
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I miss the times when "you can google it" was a valid answer.
I think the best way to try and find such forums is to search (on google, duckduckgo, others) for what you could expect to be threads in said places, adding forum to the search term. For football, I suspect "about player whatever's performance last game" might be a common thread right after a game, or "what would be your dream team"
Indeed, googling or searching has become worse and worse.
Your suggestion is a good one though! I will try it and see if that garners any results.
There's a searchable list of lemmy communities at https://lemmyverse.net/communities
Edit: which I've realized doesn't answer your question about the internet at large, but hopefully still helps
This is a nice resource to have for sure. It is a bit different than what I had in mind but with lemmy's current size I think I will get some of what I am looking for.
Well in today’s internet there’s Reddit, Facebook and Discord. You have specific Reddit threads for specific things. Other than that, the internet‘s basically dead.
Edit: I got downvoted by 3 people without them actually showing me why I would be wrong. I take from that that they don’t like what I said and that I was right.
It is what it feels like, but it's not really 100% this way (yet). It is a bad self-reinforcing cognitive bias: we think "forums are dead, that's why we stick to the sitename" instead of actually finding dozens of still alive forums and going there, in turn sitename gets more populated while forums feel more dead. But there are still plenty alive. Also, there are relatively new kinds of forums which sometimes work very well for their niche, like Discourse communities for example.
I think the claim that the internet is dead outside of that is not true. I just think that the way in which we discover things has changed so substantially that it seems that outside of the big players it is hard to find stuff.
For example if you google nostupidquestions forum this community does not come up. Even you search for nostupidquestions community it does not come up within the first 3 pages. Since searching is the gatekeeper for most discovery of new places on the internet we find new things less.
That's just an example of why it is hard to find slightly nice things nowadays.
I mean, a quick search with “football forum“ could've easily shown you that you are wrong.
Football does indeed seem to have some active forums that appear to be what I sort of had in mind. Feel silly for not asking of a better example!
There’s Hoffman music forum. Private torrent sites have great forums for different genre’s of art. There are forums for writers, queer people, furries, and almost every other subculture out there.
Whachutalkin’ about, Willis?