• HubertManne@piefed.social
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    17 hours ago

    so for me it goes back to newsgroups. I enjoyed those and morned the divide. slashdot took its place but its subject matter was limited so reddit took its place with me and now I have a true successor for newsgroups with the fediverse. im not looking to write a blog or such I just want to engage around topics im interested in.

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      10 hours ago

      Interesting. You sound old as hell (like myself), but someone who took a different path.

      I tended to do ‘forums’ while you got the good ol’ newsgroups, it sounds like?

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        10 hours ago

        I was not online much like late 95 to 98 which I think is newsgroups hey day. Also pre 95 was academia and after 98 was isp type of thing.

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          10 hours ago

          Well, I… guess that answers the question.

          Thank you for answering!

          (hmm, where does the word “answer” come from, anyway?)
          (it seems so odd across common English)