• trouser_mouse@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    I think people say it’s got a bit of an old school feeling to it more because it feels a little bit lawless, and new, and experimental - a wild-west with a user base still finding its feet and expanding and figuring out what this place is and what communities will form.

    I’ve been kicking around the internet since the 90s so it’s quite a nice feeling, although not quite the same!

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      1 year ago

      Yeah for one we didn’t have up-points on all our posts and comments, and even in more active BBSes, forums, or chat rooms, you rarely had as many people in one “place” at a time. Really your only method of interaction or “reacting” or registering approval/disapproval was through writing something of your own.

      And nothing ever went viral, because no one but a bunch of nerds cared about what happened on the internet.