• Resol van Lemmy@lemmy.world
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    3 days ago

    Yes. The fediverse wouldn’t get much awareness if it wasn’t for Twitter and Reddit absolutely shutting themselves. I wouldn’t even be here if that never happened.

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      3 days ago

      That’s technology in a nutshell. We moved off of one platform to join another.

      If we didn’t, we’d still be sending each other messages on AOL and join chatrooms to have discussions.

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        3 days ago

        At least this time around there’s no central server that can be shut down killing everything that exists in that platform. Obviously AOL Instant Messenger and many other popular messaging apps from that era suffered from this exact fate.