• ByteOnBikes@slrpnk.net
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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.

    • Resol van Lemmy@lemmy.world
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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.