By roundabout I mean neither forums, emails, nor comment sections, but other indirect and atypical ways of community forming online.
By roundabout I mean neither forums, emails, nor comment sections, but other indirect and atypical ways of community forming online.
17 Comments
Brkdncr@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 2y
The irc warez scene was an odd community. People showed up for the hacked software and stayed for the friendly banter.
bionicjoey@lemmy.ca · 4 pts · 2y
Sounds like being buddies with your drug dealer
Nemo@midwest.social · 8 pts · 2y
More like befriending the other customers in the drug dealer's waiting room.
Brkdncr@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 2y
More like hanging out at a swap meet, but with more trout slaps
TheaoneAndOnly27@kbin.social · 2 pts · 2y
Yeah, but you get the hacks first. Unlike having to watch 3 episodes of always sunny before you can leave with your dime bag of seeds and stems. ;)
Anticorp@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 2y
I used to spend hours on Suprnova's IRC and they eventually made me a mod.
Brkdncr@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 2y
Yeah I hosted some apps because my “@home” service wasn’t capped at 128k, so I was getting 5mb up/down. Would spend a lot of idle time shooting the shit with people, lots of regulars.
SpacePirate@lemmy.ml · 9 pts · 2y
MMORPGs are an easy example, where people form recognizable identities and communities in game. An extension of this would be Second Life, and somewhat more recently, VRChat.
Nemo@midwest.social · 7 pts · 2y
Webrings were great. I met one of my best friends, a girl who literally changed the course of my life, because we were both writing poetry and publishing it on our personal webpages as teens.
cowpowered@lemm.ee · 7 pts · 2y
Chee_Koala@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 2y
Met a lot of folk through Diablo II chat :-) it was nice and chill leveling with new friends
JimmyBigSausage@lemm.ee · 3 pts · 2y
shinigamiookamiryuu@lemm.ee · 3 pts · 2y
There's a program called Hypothesis, it's a toolbar that uses its status as a non-site entity to add a comment section to any page from any URL you could possibly think of. It's hard to explain.
morphballganon@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 2y
Discord servers?
Anticorp@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 2y
Man, the world sure has changed if people think forums are an atypical online community.
Lmaydev@programming.dev · 4 pts · 2y
They said not includong forums.
Anticorp@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 2y
Gosh dang it! I really need to stay off the Internet until I've finished my first cup of coffee. I thought they said "I mean either" as in "possibly including these following things".
ALostInquirer@lemm.ee · 2 pts · 2y
Fwiw those I mention in the OP are a few I personally consider typical but thought others might consider atypical these days, so wanted to head them off.
Edit:
was replying from notifications, so missed where someone else pointed this out, sorry for the extra notification! 😅
Flax_vert@feddit.uk · 2 pts · 2y
Minecraft servers.