Guess what?
Yes, this! I made some of my best friends on Yahoogroups as a teenager. I felt SO alone in the world before I found out that my fandom has a whole ass community online, and it was truly magical to feel seen for the first time.
It regrettably did get toxic. And I really hope we can avoid that here, but it won’t be without intentional effort.
I was thinking the same, I remember being peeved I couldn’t get on Facebook in 2005, because I was only in community college, and therefore not fancy enough to join.😆
Regardless, it’s a nice sentiment. Every time I sign on I find myself smiling with how neat this community is.
Yeah I gotta say, “Webrings are back!” was not on my 2023 bingo card. But I’m not hating it by a longshot! It feels like a nice hybrid of the lil Angelfire/Geocities sites and yahoogroups/onelist. Usually fandom communities were hand in hand with those two platform elements, and I’ve missed that tight-knit community feeling.
^^ facts. It took me a little bit to figure out the community search, but it connects to all available instances.
Unfortunately r/videos is only allowing text based descriptions of videos at this time, so you’ll have to describe it in excruciating detail.
(Srsly tho the illegal upload of Bee Movie was a thrilling read.)