gnoop

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by gnoop 3y ago
That's looking to be the case. Same thing happened with Usenet and the migration to web forums because Usenet became a complete mess. Some are going to Tildes. Some are going to Lemmy, though the two most popular servers are dying ri
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by gnoop 3y ago
Sadly, there's plenty of them. Probably using MS Edge because that's what their computer came with. No adblocker installed.
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by gnoop 3y ago
Reddit has its moments but I still enjoy it. It's a fun time sink between sets at the gym or if I'm stuck on a bike pedaling and have tired yet again of Duolingo. That said, I have a tendency to filter a fair bit to avoid the maj
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by gnoop 3y ago
There most likely won't be. Reddit is Usenet 2.0. With Usenet, it was a diaspora. Sure, we had some sites like Slashdot that started in 1997 but even that was still targeting link aggregation focused discussions on tech related topi
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by gnoop 3y ago
I'd add that Discord is also a modern IRC / Freenode. That seems to be one of the primary places people are flocking as they abandon most current social media sites.
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by gnoop 3y ago
I was on Slashdot in the 90s - they started in 1997. There were some early web boards that came out then as well. And yeah, phpBB has improved. One site I've been on for a good 15+ years is running on it and it's got some decent
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by gnoop 3y ago
Well, let's be honestly. Ebaumsworld is a mess these days. Complete garbage of a front page. Submissions with no comments. Seems like a graveyard that's still operating somehow but probably mostly on automation. I'll prob
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by gnoop 3y ago
We're in the chat cycle of the internet. We went through this with AOL chatrooms and IRC in the 90s as well. I'm not the most massive fan of chat in place of forums either but that seems the trend lately. Even on Reddit, a bunc
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by gnoop 3y ago
They don't understand or at least the current implementation states as much. You have to first pick a server to join, then join that server. Once in, you're typically presented with local server content only. To see federated con
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by gnoop 3y ago
Tildes is centralized. There's no federation.
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by gnoop 3y ago
Most of the old guard is still going. How well is debatable. Ebaumsworld, Slashdot, Fark, Cheezeburger, and Something Awful, among others, are all still kicking around. Shadows of their former selves, but still around. I agree with you o
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by gnoop 3y ago
One thing I've noted is that online forums have expanded and consolidated a few times over the decades. We saw expansion to start, back with BBSes, then consolidation to FidoNet, Usenet, and services like AOL. Web forums took us into
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by gnoop 3y ago
You mean Lemmy in general? Lemmy.ml is just one of many Lemmy servers. Though there's some discussion coming up on how things are going in Lemmy regarding anything surrounding any criticism of China or Russia. So far, there's be