Slashdot
Damn, that takes me back.
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I went back to Fark for a bit, it's surprisingly unchanged. That's good and bad, it's so linear and most of the comments are snarky/clever but maybe not particularly insightful. Reddit had a nice mix, a lot of funny predictable answers "And my axe!" but then also expert posters that would write 2 intelligent pages on a subject.
Slashdot in its heyday was great. Then that sale happened. Somehow I ended up skipping Fark and Digg.
Somehow, I missed Fark in that transition, but otherwise, that was my journey too.
Newgroups on AOL>Too Many to List
Had almost the same journey, except I've never heard of fark before.
I kind of skipped Fark entirely, but other than that, yeah that was my route here.
Can’t leave out irc.
"History is the Hajj to utopia"
From memory, from somewhere in the Red Mars trilogy by Kim Stanley Robinson.
BBS > various forums > /. & Metafilter & fark (no digg), > Reddit & twitter > the fediverse!
I hope so, but I'm not a believer yet.
BBS>FidoNet>Newsgroups>AOL>Slashdot>Reddit>Fediverse
Just add usenet on the front end there.
Yeah, Usenet is what my brain mapped Lemmy to. You get your feed and post through your server. You read posts from others on other servers. Each local server decides what feeds it will carry.
Of course, there’s no central hierarchy for the communities like Usenet had.