Where did you learn everything you needed to know about online discourse?
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The starwars.com forum long before the Disney purchase killed it, then Digg until the v4 update, then Reddit until the APIpocalypse.
So many communities I've seen wrecked by corporate greed. The Fediverse gives me hope for people being able to interact online without having to worry about the enshittification.
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Napster chatrooms
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Usenet and IRC, back in the late 90s. Damn I'm getting old.
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Making as many mistakes, missteps, misunderstandings, misconceptions and misses as possible.
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&totse and IRC mostly
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4chan taught me that, in a highly uncivilised world, the best thing to do is be kind and keep your dignity. It'll either calm people's spirits or infuriate others, and I enjoy both, lol. Also, words don't have to hurt, especially those from online strangers!
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Indeed and this very thing happened to me as I was a teenager talking shit to a user on our local MajorBBS system, which was a popular multi line BBS system that had chat, games, forums, fidonet, etc. and he showed up to the next meetup at the park (he did warn me he was going to be there, to kick my ass). Everything turned out fine but lesson learned.
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Oh man, I am not the primary demographic of lemmy am I?
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Discussing online.
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Thank god I was able to learn on the early days of the internet
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As many others have said IRC and usenet in the 90's
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MMOs and forums.
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Started with online BBS's in the 1980s where you could get kicked off for being a dick (and your phone number banned) but Larry Wall's "rn" for Usenet used to say before every post:
This program posts news to thousands of machines throughout the entire civilized world.
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on the internet? it's an on-going process, there is no "everything"
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Hmmm, I think my gateway drug to interacting with actual Internet strangers vs talking online with people I knew IRL, was probably via StarCraft over dial-up in 1998. RuneScape shortly after for developing actual relationships with people, then WoW owned my soul from its vanilla release through the cata expansion.
Several WoW guilds had their own websites/forums, which eventually got me into forums for other topics, then Reddit, then here.
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Over thirty years ago, on TALK.
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The NME (popular British music paper) had a website with a chat room/board that I was active on in the late 90s. I was about 17.
They also gave you free webmail with a @nme.com address, so you felt like a music journalist. Unfortunately, they shut it all down out of the blue in the 00s, with little warning, so I lost my primary email address. Would love to recover all those messages, but they are gone forever.
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By being a part of online discourse as early as 1993 and watching it grow pretty much from inception.
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I still automatically think "YOUR .SIG IS TOO HUGE!" when reading modern work emails with rows upon rows of name, job title, company, contact info, disclaimers, embedded graphics, etc. at the bottom.
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on the internet? it's an on-going process, there is no "everything"
Bingo. Whether or here, or formerly, reddit, I can adjust my style and words to get the upvotes, without compromising my beliefs. But holy shit, people are easy to manipulate.
