This place (Lemmy) reminds me a lot of when I used to post on SA back before Reddit was popular. I wouldn’t call it “small” per se, but you actually knew who the moderators were. And since there was no upvote/downvote system, it was a lot more casual and people didn’t feel the need to try to tailor their posts to get upvoted.

Of course, it was also a dumpster fire sometimes too, and just like Reddit, the guy running it was a jerk. But I do miss it sometimes.

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    1 year ago

    I miss it to, SA was the precurser of internet culture and was a fun place to post. I feel like the modern internet has been a bit sanded down.

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    1 year ago

    I never joined somethingawful but I spent a good chunk of my middleschool and high school years posting on small message boards and some bigger ones. It was always a fun experience and there was a semblance of community. Honestly even reddit in the earlier days had a huge sense of community and in the smaller subreddits you would recognize some names.

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    1 year ago

    SA was a huge part of my adolescence. It still wasn’t great but it was probably the only system i know that had a true community feel to it

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      1 year ago

      Wow, I honestly didn’t even know it was still around! Maybe I’ll poke my head back in. I used to play Eve back when SA had a big presence on there. It has been over a decade.