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Fediverse@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 month ago

How did we move from forums to Reddit, Facebook groups, and Discord?

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How did we move from forums to Reddit, Facebook groups, and Discord?

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Fediverse@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 month ago

From the first moment I first went online in 1996, forums were the main place to hang out. In fact the very first thing I did was join an online forum run by the Greek magazine "PC Master" so I could directly to my favourite game reviewers (for me it was Tsourinakis, for those old [...]

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Mostly FB wasn’t a trove of far right shit and it was before a lot of the scandals pointing out to what extent our data is sold.
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  Sure, when only the educated could join it.
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  Maybe because I’m not from an English speaking culture that I don’t see the far right stuff

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