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By roundabout I mean neither forums, emails, nor comment sections, but other indirect and atypical ways of community forming online.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

Minecraft servers.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

Discord servers?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 8 months ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 8 months ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 8 months ago (2 children)

The irc warez scene was an odd community. People showed up for the hacked software and stayed for the friendly banter.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago (3 children)

Sounds like being buddies with your drug dealer

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

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. ;)

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago

More like hanging out at a swap meet, but with more trout slaps

[–] [email protected] 8 points 8 months ago

More like befriending the other customers in the drug dealer's waiting room.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago

I have read about the Circles app. Have not tried it. Anyone with any experience?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Late 90s PC gaming. Even the simple in-game chat systems back in the days in games such as Unreal Tournament, Counter-Strike, Team Fortress and many others helped people meet, socialize, and form communities.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

Met a lot of folk through Diablo II chat :-) it was nice and chill leveling with new friends