Technology

Journey Before Destination

Finally more people moving to fediverse

Not going back too far, mine was IRC > Slashdot > FuckedCompany > Fark> 4chan > Reddit > Digg > back to Reddit lol > Lemmy

That's funny because I've seen some people on Reddit say they're going to use Fark instead after the controversy. I guess old sites just don't die.

Where does somethingawful fit in

I'd need to shoehorn the Something Awful forums in there somewhere between Fark and Digg.

I kind of skipped Fark entirely, but other than that, yeah that was my route here.

Slashdot in its heyday was great. Then that sale happened. Somehow I ended up skipping Fark and Digg.

Slashdot

Damn, that takes me back.

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.

Fark eh. I used to have a double digit account number of there. Those were the days.

I had the same journey but I'm pretty sure I found Slashdot by way of boingboing which I found by way of Diesel Sweeties blog posts when I first got a DSL connection in 2002 and was looking for comics and blogs to fill up my trendy new RSS reader lol

Had almost the same journey, except I've never heard of fark before.

I now have the Enterprise theme song stuck in my head 😅

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!)