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How did we move from forums to Reddit, Facebook groups, and Discord? (dbzer0.com)

submitted 1 month ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/28930199

A bit of an effortpost :)

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Great post!

I would be curious to know how many people on here have found memories from BBcode-style forums.

Personally I kinda skipped web 2.0 - I had some accounts, sure, but I hardly interacted with anything else than direct messaging. However I used to hang out on phpBB for probably hours every day before Facebook took over, having been lured in by needing help progressing in Pokémon on my GameBoy Advance.

I guess I'm a minority around here in never having used Reddit much. But I'm wondering if we're, in general, a bunch of ageing nerds who are nostalgic to web 1.0, or if we're a more diverse bunch than that. ;)

Edit:
Oh, and speaking of nostalgia, I'm sad LemmyBB is not maintained any more! It makes perfect sense that it isn't of course, but what a blast it would be.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I used to use them a lot before Reddit, but I never really liked them. Too many to list or even remember at this point.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago

I guess a large part why I liked them was that I was really only active on one or maximum two, and I was happy just embracing the community there. It was also in my native language rather than in English, which feels excotic in retrospect.