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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Slashdot

Damn, that takes me back.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (3 children)

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.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (8 children)

Slashdot in its heyday was great. Then that sale happened. Somehow I ended up skipping Fark and Digg.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Somehow, I missed Fark in that transition, but otherwise, that was my journey too.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Newgroups on AOL>Too Many to List

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Had almost the same journey, except I've never heard of fark before.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

I kind of skipped Fark entirely, but other than that, yeah that was my route here.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Can’t leave out irc.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

"History is the Hajj to utopia"

From memory, from somewhere in the Red Mars trilogy by Kim Stanley Robinson.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

BBS > various forums > /. & Metafilter & fark (no digg), > Reddit & twitter > the fediverse!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Where does somethingawful fit in

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

I hope so, but I'm not a believer yet.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

BBS>FidoNet>Newsgroups>AOL>Slashdot>Reddit>Fediverse

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

Just add usenet on the front end there.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

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.

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