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[–] 12 points 1 year ago (7 children)

I was reddit faithful for over a decade. Lemmy is like reddit's early days, I recognize users across multiple communities - people haven't completely closed themselves off into tiny echo chambers so discussions are actually discussions, and not brigading agreements.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (6 children)

    I was reddit faithful for over a decade. Lemmy is like reddit’s early days, I recognize users across multiple communities

    In Reddit's really early days, there weren't any subreddits.

    goes back to archive.org to find out when that was

    Looks like their snapshot on January 10, 2007 lacks a subreddit sidebar, and the one on January 13, 2007 has one, so probably somewhere in there.

    The first snapshot they have of Reddit is August 4, 2005, so it was like that for about a year-and-a-half.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    I know I wasn't there that early, but I was around for rage comics, Spacedicks, and the rise & fall of the novelty accounts.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    The fall of novelty accounts? That's a new one on me.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    For a couple of years there were accounts where all the comments they made had a theme, usually the username was related. That's how ShittyWatercolor started; someone would describe something in a comment and that would make shitty watercolor artwork of it.

    There were tons of them. I remember another that would replace words in the comment with a link to a Magic the Gathering card where the title of the card would fill in the rest of the sentence.

    There was another that would

    witre cmeomtns lkie tihs 
    

    so your brain could read them even though nothing was spelled properly.

    There were a few threads where they'd Assemble like the Avengers and it would be a bunch of folks all playing off one another. It was glorious, and then it all just kind of faded away...

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago* (1 child)

    Ah, gotcha. I don't remember seeing a decline, but maybe I wasn't looking for it.

    EDIT: It looks like /u/ShittyWatercolour is still posting as of two months ago:

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hector_Janse_van_Rensburg

    https://old.reddit.com/user/Shitty_Watercolour

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