Cory Doctorow bookends my use of reddit. About 20 years ago I started to read him at boingboing, where I learned about del.icio.us (he had an obsession with "folksonomy", or organization by user-created tags), the social bookmarking site. From there I learned of reddit and made an account soon after that was possible (it was just the frontpage for a bit). That was 5 Nov 2005, and while I thought I would stay until or after my account was old enough to vote in the US, I've let it go. I was user #497, same username as here. Finally, Cory D's concept of enshittification has found it's apotheosis, and it's a bittersweet goodbye for me.
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thereticent@sopuli.xyz · 3 pts · 3y
Cory Doctorow bookends my use of reddit. About 20 years ago I started to read him at boingboing, where I learned about del.icio.us (he had an obsession with "folksonomy", or organization by user-created tags), the social bookmarking site. From there I learned of reddit and made an account soon after that was possible (it was just the frontpage for a bit). That was 5 Nov 2005, and while I thought I would stay until or after my account was old enough to vote in the US, I've let it go. I was user #497, same username as here. Finally, Cory D's concept of enshittification has found it's apotheosis, and it's a bittersweet goodbye for me.
Thanks for reading. Keep it human.
Blinky_katt@lemmygrad.ml · 3 pts · 3y
Oh wow, boingboing and deli.cio.us, nostalgic old site names I haven't thought about in years.. :)
fne8w2ah@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 3y