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Slashdot -> Fark -> Digg -> Reddit -> Lemmy
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Journey Before Destination
Renegade BBSes -> IRC -> slashdot -> digg -> reddit -> imgur -> discord -> mastadon with plenty of side quests along the way
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Not going back too far, mine was IRC > Slashdot > StumbleUpon > FuckedCompany > Fark > 4chan > Reddit > Digg > back to Reddit lol > Lemmy
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Finally more people moving to fediverse
Slashdot -> kuro5hin -> reddit -> Lemmy for me.
Any old k5ers on here?
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Fark eh. I used to have a double digit account number of there. Those were the days.
The one true constant for me is 4chan 😅
I kinda grew out of it. It was funny when I was an edgy teenager but it got progressively more cringeworthy as time progressed for me, even though the content may not have changed much.
I stopped engaging with Reddit when meme-ification happened.Wheb it became all about the lolz abd short pithy responses, I started using it to find more interesting articles. Gone are the days wheb the average Redditor would read and make thoughtful contributions.
That is in part because the reddit algorithm doesn't like thoughtful contributions. These take time and understanding of the discussed matter. When your metric is positive (upvote) interaction per timeframe you need easily digestable content that people immediately react to. If I have to carefully read and think about the content my vote/comment is far too late to be "hot" on reddit.
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I had the same journey but I'm pretty sure I found Slashdot by way of boingboing which I found by way of Diesel Sweeties blog posts when I first got a DSL connection in 2002 and was looking for comics and blogs to fill up my trendy new RSS reader lol
I'd need to shoehorn the Something Awful forums in there somewhere between Fark and Digg.
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I kind of skipped Fark entirely, but other than that, yeah that was my route here.
Slashdot in its heyday was great. Then that sale happened. Somehow I ended up skipping Fark and Digg.
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Pretty similar for me, but I never did Fark. Funnily enough after digg was sold and relaunched I started using the new digg pretty regularly. It isn't old digg, but it does find and aggregate decent news and entertainment links.
Had almost the same journey, except I've never heard of fark before.
this post was submitted on 12 Jun 2023
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