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For better or for worse, I would not be the person that I am today without the small internet communities that I hung around so much with in the past two years. Many of them are now lost to time, so I thought that I should write some odes to them as best as I remember.
I don't remember exactly how I found 22chan, but I assume it was off random lurking, since a friend just so happened to mention it to me in an IRC dm and I had already known about the site at that time. I particularly enjoyed their version of /k/, though I found it rather slow, and their /b/ was honestly one of the best experiences I remember out of 2021-2022. One of my better memories from that place was this one dream thread where users described exactly what is in the title, and we would just talk for months about the same couple of dreams. /vg/ wasn't bad either, but I only really remember the thread about the BloodbornePSX fangame. My heart fucking broke when I found out it was gone for good, and even though livechan is still around it doesn't fill the gap. I hope you're doing good, twoot, whatever you're doing in Germany.
...I don't remember any other ones that I wanted to mention. I guess there was this one IRC channel that I used to talk in for a couple weeks, but that was far more recent and the site in general is still up and running, so it would be out of place.