From the first moment I first went online in 1996, forums were the main place to hang out. In fact the very first thing I did was join an online forum run by the Greek magazine "PC Master" so I could directly to my favourite game reviewers (for me it was Tsourinakis, for those old [...]

A bit of an effortpost :)

Please do crosspost in more fitting communities if you think of any

  • db0@lemmy.dbzer0.comOP
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    2 months ago

    reddit started as a link aggregator, but morphed into a de-facto forum, yes. But link aggregation was also a big part. But when I say forums in this piece, I am talking about old school ones, as existed before reddit. Lemmy can function as a forum replacement however, which is why I suggest it at the end as a suitable replacement.