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View submission: Why are you still on Reddit?
I was on Usenet 30+ years ago and Reddit is pretty close to that.
Comment by mr_tgreen at 05/02/2025 at 14:09 UTC
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usenet -> digg -> reddit pipeline for me
Comment by Triabolical_ at 05/02/2025 at 16:58 UTC
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That was my exact analogy.
Reddit gets me towards that. In the old days, if I wanted help in fixing one of my pinball machines, I could head to rec/pinball and know that I had found the experts.
I'm going to be putting in a new stereo in my truck, and I'm going to be asking some questions in r/carav because it has the right vibe.
When the internet went hugely commercial all of the useful stuff got drowned out by all the marketing stuff. That perhaps has gotten a little better - google regularly recommends reddit posts - but I still trust very little unless I know the site.
Comment by Kindly-Discipline-53 at 06/02/2025 at 02:28 UTC
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I only really became active on Reddit in the last month or so, but I used to be on Usenet a lot back in the 90s and I've really missed that. So I'm glad to have found Reddit.
Comment by Technical-Bit-4801 at 05/02/2025 at 16:31 UTC
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Came here to say exactly this. 👍 When people today complain about the incivility of social media I think: you clearly weren’t around during the Usenet days…
Comment by OldButHappy at 05/02/2025 at 16:03 UTC
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I still have images from Newsgroups that I cannot un-see!
Comment by knucklebone2 at 05/02/2025 at 17:34 UTC
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Yes, exactly this. Except I was on Usenet more like 40+ years ago :-)
Comment by Kodiak01 at 05/02/2025 at 20:51 UTC
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Ah, the days of alt.kibology...