Inspired by a comment in another thread, what was the path you took over your life, through the various online social media we’ve had?

By way of example, I started in Yahoo chatrooms, to a little bit of Myspace and private forums, to ICQ and IRC, to no online socials for awhile, to facebook, to 4chan, to reddit, ending up here on lemmy.

I’ve never used twitter, insta, tiktok, etc for any length of time.

If you’d like, your native language and a rough estimate of your age can be included for additional context.

  • Pamasich@kbin.earth
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    4 hours ago

    I started out with forums primarily. And Youtube.

    I then tried out Facebook, Twitter, and Google+, but didn’t like any of them. My school for a time also mandated Netlog iirc.

    Eventually I moved to Reddit and joined Discord.

    When the blackout protests came around, I went looking for alternatives to Reddit I could try out while the subreddits I cared about were dark, which is when I saw people suggesting /kbin. Which I liked a lot more than Lemmy based on first impressions, so I joined it.

    When /kbin died, I switched to Mbin. I’m still active on Reddit itself because I originally really only joined as a temporary measure. I liked it enough to stick around, but Reddit has not become that unusable yet that I would leave it for good.

    Never used Instagram, Tiktok, 4chan, etc.

    I’m Swiss, German-speaking, born 1996.