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db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com to Fediverse@lemmy.worldEnglish · 7 months ago

How did we move from forums to Reddit, Facebook groups, and Discord?

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How did we move from forums to Reddit, Facebook groups, and Discord?

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db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com to Fediverse@lemmy.worldEnglish · 7 months ago
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From the first moment I first went online in 1996, forums were the main place to hang out. In fact the very first thing I did was join an online forum run by the Greek magazine "PC Master" so I could directly to my favourite game reviewers (for me it was Tsourinakis, for those old [...]

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/28930199

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    Discord has a bloody server limit which makes it impractical

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      They also make it incredibly difficult to even pay for their service. I needed to fund one for work a few years ago It was a pain in the arse. I had to buy $200 worth of boost packs. Just give me a single line item premium server and be done with it.

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          that Discord was the viable option, even though it didn’t have the features you needed unless you dropped $200 in microtransactions?

          It was a discord for a game.

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        No, 100 servers

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