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by Vrondi 862 days ago
But before that, forums existed that let you subscribe to threads in your forum account. It's just that the mundane masses used them a little less than the geeky folk. All Reddit added was stealing the upvote/downvote thing from Slashdot and Digg.
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And combining all topics under a single umbrella, so you interact with them all as the same persona.