Put BBS discussion boards, FidoNet groups, and Usenet out front and drop Fark for my path. Along with a variety of standalone forums and random stuff that never went anywhere, of course :) (yes, I'm old!)
this post was submitted on 12 Jun 2023
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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.
I went back to Fark for a bit, it's surprisingly unchanged. That's good and bad, it's so linear and most of the comments are snarky/clever but maybe not particularly insightful. Reddit had a nice mix, a lot of funny predictable answers "And my axe!" but then also expert posters that would write 2 intelligent pages on a subject.
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I skipped Digg and Fark, but otherwise that's my route so far.
It's like that scene in Chocolat with Johnny Depp where the woman feels the wind blowing. Nothing we're not used to, always a bit of a bittersweet goodbye.
BBS>FidoNet>Newsgroups>AOL>Slashdot>Reddit>Fediverse
Still on Fark, fam
I checked it out today and ngl, it's actually really good.
For me it was Slashdot->Hacker News, And then in parallel Reddit->Lemmy
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I skipped Fark but after Reddit I spent a lot of time on the greater Fediverse before Lemmy got critical mass.