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Fediverse@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 months 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 · 3 months 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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Forums still exist, there only for extremely niche things though…Like high powered flashlights
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  The grossest franchise of all time (Pokémon) still has like 20 forums going on.
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  I wish retro gaming was niche enough for nintendoage and assemblergames to still be around…

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