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Honestly, the layout and formatting of forums just isn't as good as the way comments are sorted and how they can spawn side discussions like on Reddit or Lemmy.
Isn't the main difference just that forums are focused on longer discussions, and reddit/lemmy are focused on a constant stream of content?
I'd prefer forums for a lot of my interests, a well managed forum will contain long in depth discussion regarding important topics that the likes of lemmy/reddit/discord either don't, or if they do, good luck finding it. If however you just want to visit it in the morning and see something different than you saw yesterday, yeah for just raw speed of content, forums suck.
But is that really better?
I think maybe the forums give the illusion of a longer discussion because a low effort reply is given the same weight as a really in-depth reply post.
It bumps the post back up to the top too so that kind of encourages continued discussion in a way Reddit posts don't. So that's a benefit to forums.