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 [...]
  • Ghostalmedia@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    6 days ago

    My migration was primarily driven by threading, voting, and ads.

    1. forums (community topics) >
    2. slashdot (community topics + threads) >
    3. digg / reddit (community topics + threads + comment voting) >
    4. Lemmy (community topics + threads + comment voting - ads)
    • celsiustimeline@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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      6 days ago

      I’ve found slashdot, over the last 2 decades, has devolved into climate change denying, capitalist fellating, wildly off topic flame wars in the comments. As a news aggregator, I’ve never seen an article hit slashdot before it hits reddit or lemmy.

    • db0@lemmy.dbzer0.comOPEnglish
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      6 days ago

      slashdot (community topics + threads) >

      slashdot hads voting though. In fact I wish we had the same sort of votes slashdot had. up/down votes are so limited :(