Not going back too far, mine was IRC > Slashdot > StumbleUpon > FuckedCompany > Fark > 4chan > Reddit > Digg > back to Reddit lol > Lemmy
I loved StumbleUpon. But I do like the forum style discussions from Reddit and now Lemmy.
For me it was Slashdot->Hacker News, And then in parallel Reddit->Lemmy
yeah HN feels kind of like old slashdot to me
slashdot has really stagnated over the years
Anyone remember a small post-fark forum called bannination?
I sure do! I wrote the initial comment de-htmlizer.
Loved the "Nancy" score.
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!)
Usenet was one of my startng point too... Funny to think it was (in a way) decentralized.
Edit: still is of course. Usenet is still around.
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.
yeah - usenet has to be in there, as well as The Register
Just add usenet on the front end there.
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