Roleplaying in AOL chatrooms. I remember joining this group who roleplayed as vampires and hanging out in the “local tavern.” I was only 9 and in hindsight half of what people were doing was hooking up, but it made me love writing.

Later on, I really enjoyed LiveJournal and staying up way too late reading fanfiction with my friends on AIM/MSN messenger.

Early Google. When AskJeeves fizzled away but SEO and ads hadn’t taken over.

To subscribe to outside communities on the instance that you signed up on, go to the search bar on your instance and type in the name of the community @ instance with an exclamation at the beginning.

For example, if you want to follow the Jokes community on lemmy.ml, you would type into your search bar: [email protected]. It will pop up and you click on it, which will take you to the community. Click on where it says sidebar and you should see the subscribe. You do this for all the communities you want to sign up for that are not apart of your instance.

To subscribe to outside communities on the instance that you signed up on, go to the search bar and type in the name of the community @ instance with an exclamation at the beginning.

For example, if you want to follow the Jokes community on lemmy.ml, you would type into your search bar: [email protected]. It will pop up and you click on it, which will take you to the community. Click on where it says sidebar and you should see the plus sign. You do this for all the communities you want to sign up for that are not apart of your instance.