Used to hang out on the startrek NG's and had a blast. Met a ton of people and even on soc.men - which was a rock 'em, sock 'em kind of group (flame wars galore!) there were people that I came to admire and though we had differences of opinions, (and how!) we also found a lot that we agreed upon.

It all went away for me, when my ISP (comcast) dropped access because of the threat of prosecution for distributing child porn that then NY State Attorney General Andrew Cuomo promised, if they didn't.

Part of why I gravitated to Reddit was that when I signed up it was the cascading newsgroup comment style (old.reddit.com) that I could make sense of.

Now I'm here via old.lemmy.zip, and I haven't missed a beat.