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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/28930199

A bit of an effortpost :)

Please do crosspost in more fitting communities if you think of any

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[–] VantaBrandon 7 points 3 weeks ago

tl;dr the internet didn't used to be about making money, it was a place where people created all kinds of content, for almost no reason at all, and almost nobody was making any money, except AOL which blew all their money on CDs probably

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Great post, thanks for taking the time to write this.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I loved the old forums, and couldn't quite see the point of Facebook when it came out. I thought it was just for self-obsessed 'models' and wannabe 'celebs' when I first heard about it! I joined it eventually of course, as all my friends did and I wanted to see what it was all about. Over the years I've had a love/hate thing with FB and only check in a couple of times a week now.

I liked Reddit, it reminded me of the old forums. I like Lemmy more though. It's still got that feeling I remember back in the old forum days before everyone and his dog got online on their phones and things seemed to go downhill.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Lemmy reminds me of Reddit 10-15 years ago. Back when popular posts would be on the front-page for a few days, when a few hundred or thousand upvotes was a lot, when large communities had tens of thousands of subscribers, not hundreds or millions, when the chance of recognizing and running into the same users on various subreddits was still kind of common...

[–] blazeknave 6 points 3 weeks ago

VC backed user experience

[–] nutsack 5 points 3 weeks ago

the other users forced me to do it by moving

[–] buzz86us 4 points 3 weeks ago (6 children)

Hosting a forum costs money, and we ain't got that

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