Was it one of the only places you found a forum for something you were interested in or a fan of? Or something else entirely?
The great digg exodus
That was a gazillion years ago. Probably some fandom thing? Seems likely.
Minecraft servers I played on coordinated via Reddit and Mumble. Now they’ve mostly moved to Discord, which, in my opinion, really hurt the lore and meta gaming because Discord’s steam-of-consciousness format doesn’t work well compared to a forum style message board where it’s much easier to avoid shit-tier content and find good, relevant, high quality posts.
If I recall correctly I was mostly pissed with 4chan doing jack shit against the invasion of Stormfront clowns.
Someone asked a particular neach question about a field I work in and as usual the answers were missing the nuance of the answer the person was questioning.
Everyone step aside, Gigachad coming through.
I was playing CSR2 (still am) and was searching for some info when I found the CSR2 community there.
What’s CSR2? I keep thinking Counter-Strike, but I’m not sure.
Custom Street Racing 2. A car hoarding game with some drag racing thrown in. It’s an old serie of games I found in 2016 when looking for a car game with classics (I cound CSR Classics). This version is the combination of CSR and CSR Classics, kinda. (not enough classics for my taste)
It was christmas eve, I was stuck with family and with only a phone, Reddit had some things to read, that was basically it.
It was new and exciting.
I was trying to unlock a dragon-type safari in Pokémon Y and you can’t just enter a random code for that - you need to find another player who has such a safari in their own game already, share codes with them, and then you both need to be online at the same time at least once. After lots of googling I found a person on reddit, but didn’t have an account at the time so I created one just for that dumb safari.
I didn’t even plan to keep the account in the first place, so I didn’t care for a proper name - that’s the reason I was named “justlookingfordragon” back then. I tried “just_looking_for_a_dragon_type_safari_THX” first but it exceeded the character limit.
After that, I didn’t touch the account again for a few months but eventually started using it proper for giveawys of Pokémon breedjects, and then later Zelda-related stuff. Still never bothered to find a better name and it’s become somewhat of a running gag for me to use that awkward username elsewhere (like for youtube and lemmy for example).
In 2012 I became an imgurian. sometime in 2013 that must’ve led me to creating a reddit account though I have no recollection of doing that, I didn’t even really know what reddit was until 2015, when, imagine my surprise when I clicked on Reddit and it auto-populated a username & pwd for me that I barely vaguely recall creating two years prior.
Back in 2006/2007 I was reading Slashdot for tech news and stuff. I started noticing that a lot of newer content was just linking to Reddit posts, so I figured I’d cut out the middleman and jumped ship to Reddit.
slashdot linked to reddit
then the shareholders spied it… and that was that…
how’s fark these days? still got a not see problem?
I had steadfastly refused to make an account for years even though I browsed daily, until someone said something stupid in one of the Occupy Wallstreet threads and I couldn’t stop myself from needing to correct them.
I was a fairly new user. It was mostly because it was a popular platform so sometime during the quarantine I just started exploring it.
A YouTuber I liked created a subreddit for his viewers to post content related to him, so I created a Reddit account to comment on those posts.
I used get my memes from 9gag 10-15 years ago until someone recommended Reddit and gave it a go
