• jonathan@lemmy.zip
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      18 hours ago

      I think people don’t realise how old Reddit is, it was smaller than Lemmy is now when I first started using it.

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        18 hours ago

        and no subreddits! i was there too! it really started gaining traction and losing technical users when the ‘image macros’ started… memes took over

      • fuckwit_mcbumcrumble@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        18 hours ago

        Social media in general was also a lot smaller back then too.

        Until the iPhone got popular you had to use a computer to access it. And back then we didn’t really trust sleep mode very much so you had to wait 2 minutes for windows to boot when you wanted to go on the net. VS right now I’m standing in from of my clothes not getting ready for work for 45 seconds.

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          10 hours ago

          Wait to boot? Back then I had a dozen machines all running 24/7 lol. But I guess the average user on the consumer side yeah.

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        17 hours ago

        it was smaller than Lemmy is now when I first started using it.

        so now we know whom to blame for its enshittification