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[–] Yerbouti@sh.itjust.works 13 points 3 days ago (5 children)

Lemmy is pretty chill. Combined with a rss feed viewer, a few youtube channel (ff+extension), Nexcloud, and my internet experience is cool. I don't care about tiktok, instagram and all that shit.

[–] The_Picard_Maneuver@lemmy.world 10 points 3 days ago (7 children)

I recently started collecting feeds for my RSS reader, and it is so refreshing. I haven't added any Lemmy feeds to it yet, since I'm on here a lot anyway, but it's nice for blogs and websites that I'm not going to remember to check regularly otherwise.

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[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 11 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Facebook only barely an idea mid 2000s?

Most of my friends had ditched MySpace for Facebook shortly after highschool and I graduated in 2003.

[–] Tuxman@sh.itjust.works 9 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I remember when the internet was only for nerds.. before it was ruined by the high school cool kids and the jocks

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[–] onion_trial@europe.pub 5 points 3 days ago (1 children)

The big tech industry products are like that. There are still small communities which are meaningful, peaceful and friendly.

Take a look at knockout.chat

[–] PartyAt15thAndSummit@lemmy.zip 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Oh, that's what the old Facepunch forum evolved into, right? Yeah, that was a really nice place when I last visited, but that was years ago. I just felt like I had grown out of it.

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[–] Endymion_Mallorn@kbin.melroy.org 14 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Dead Internet Theory is becoming mainstream now. How long will it be until we get AI slop rants about how worthless human content is?

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[–] NaibofTabr@infosec.pub 14 points 3 days ago (3 children)

I mean... how old is 4chan? .../b/?

[–] Sc00ter@lemm.ee 10 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

I was on it mid/late 2000s. I dont know when it was formed, but i was definitelt on it around 06

Edit: The internet says it was launched in 03

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[–] LazyGit@feddit.org 13 points 3 days ago (3 children)

Not sure. I still remember the Great-NetNews-AOL-Hate (aka ‘me-too’) of 1995 :)

/s, I think

[–] IHeartBadCode@fedia.io 14 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Exactly this. Shit I remember when the alt.* tree was added to USENET. The amount of the cabal talk and how the argument actually was: "No, nobody wants to pay to host your racist rants". And some of the worst stuff I see on Reddit today is light-years better than what the Internet was in plain sight back in the day before cracking down on things actually came around.

I'm glad person in the imaged post was happy with the Internet back then, but it was far from "human and genuine". This is absolutely some rose tinted nostalgia. What they miss is small niche communities and this kind of talk is exactly how "get off my lawn" elderly people get started.

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[–] fuckwit_mcbumcrumble@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 points 3 days ago (1 children)

nothing was monetized.

Lmao.

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[–] brucethemoose@lemmy.world 8 points 3 days ago (4 children)

It feels unsustainable, right? Like the value of of this tsunami of advertising has to be inflated, especially with bots/agents taking over traffic. People’s tolerance for junk isn’t infinite. At some point the illusion has to crack, and the advertising bubble will pop and burn the internet/app ecosystems down, hopefully…

[–] The_Picard_Maneuver@lemmy.world 8 points 3 days ago (3 children)

Yeah, there has to be a point when they're going to realize that they're hosting bots to advertise to bots, and nobody is going to want to pay for that.

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[–] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 11 points 3 days ago (1 children)

YouTube wasn't around for half of the mid-2000s.

[–] Sc00ter@lemm.ee 15 points 3 days ago (2 children)

It was launched in 2005... literally mid 2000 when delineated by decade

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[–] Mihies@programming.dev 10 points 3 days ago (2 children)

I remember Google search being in beta

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