• Resol van Lemmy
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    63 days ago

    Yes. The fediverse wouldn’t get much awareness if it wasn’t for Twitter and Reddit absolutely shutting themselves. I wouldn’t even be here if that never happened.

    • @[email protected]
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      43 days ago

      That’s technology in a nutshell. We moved off of one platform to join another.

      If we didn’t, we’d still be sending each other messages on AOL and join chatrooms to have discussions.

      • Resol van Lemmy
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        23 days ago

        At least this time around there’s no central server that can be shut down killing everything that exists in that platform. Obviously AOL Instant Messenger and many other popular messaging apps from that era suffered from this exact fate.

      • @LovableSidekick
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        13 days ago

        Haven’t thought of AOL in years but recently it’s been coming up at random. On a TV show last night somebody’s neighbor said “Check your AOL” because they sent an email that morning and the person hadn’t replied yet.

    • @LovableSidekick
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      23 days ago

      Assuming you meant “shitting themselves” - Lemmy is doing that too, it just wipes better, at least for now.