• limelight79@lemm.ee
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    11 months ago

    I wonder how Slashdot is doing…

    Looks like it’s still going strong, but each article has like 15 comments. And the poll has a CowboyNeal option…

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      11 months ago

      Oh wow, forgot about Slashdot…

      Fark, Slashdot, and BoingBoing were pretty much my daily go-to in the pre-Digg/reddit internet

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        11 months ago

        I skipped the Digg era. I didn’t join reddit until probably 2015, after I kept coming across extremely useful information there that wasn’t available elsewhere. I think it was the advice on what to do with asbestos that finally tipped it over for me.

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          11 months ago

          I was an early reddit adopter. I preferred its hyper minimalist style, as well as the type of conversations I saw, to Digg at the time. Well before the whole Digg 2.0 debacle.

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        11 months ago

        I doubt I could log in now, since I haven’t for so long

        Edit to add: nope. Browser doesn’t know, password manager doesn’t have it, and it’s not tied to the oldest email address I still use :(

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        11 months ago

        I have a 5 digit UID, and I just checked that I can still log in. Looks like my most recent comment was in November of 2015, which is a lot later than I would have guessed.

        I visited a few times right after the reddit blowup, while checking out other options for this sort of thing. I might have to go back more.