• axtualdave@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    just as nested comments on reddit is a revolutionary change to traditional internet forums.

    Uh, Reddit hardly created the idea of nested comments. You can go back to usenet or Prodigy/Compuserve in the 90s and find nested conversations. Slashdot did it, Daily Kos did it, shit, even the old school VN Boards did it.

    Unless I misunderstand your point?

    • Margot Robbie@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      I do think reddit was the one that popularized it though, maybe it would be more accurate to say “combination of nested comments and vote based instead of time based sorting”?