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this post was submitted on 12 Jun 2023
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Just add usenet on the front end there.
Yeah, Usenet is what my brain mapped Lemmy to. You get your feed and post through your server. You read posts from others on other servers. Each local server decides what feeds it will carry.
Of course, there’s no central hierarchy for the communities like Usenet had.
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Can’t leave out irc.
Had almost the same journey, except I've never heard of fark before.
I hope so, but I'm not a believer yet.
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.
expert posters that would write 2 intelligent pages on a subject.
Basically the main thing I'm looking for in my replacement tbh.
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BBS > various forums > /. & Metafilter & fark (no digg), > Reddit & twitter > the fediverse!
Somehow I missed Fark in that transition, but otherwise that was my journey too.