Yeah. Yeah it's just you my dude. There's no way I've ever heard that sentiment before on websites or other posts.
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All technology becomes degraded over time. Enshittification is real.
Everything's too like, corporate nowadays on mainstream internet. Like less about being social with others and more trying to sell a product or a brand or something. Those big tech names have optimized everything to extract as much profit as possible from you and your time with ever decreasing benefit to you.
I agree the internet feels a lot different than the eqrly 2000s, but breaking down what's different I can't pin anything concrete down.
There's pretty much no fundamental differences between how social media was and how it is now. People talk, share interests, get in arguments. What we feel is nostalgia for a wild west internet with less people and rules that will never exist again.
More people use the internet now so more people participate in the conversation. That's how it will be for the rest of human history probably.
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The feeling you're talking about pretty much always happens when you find a small community. Like when you move to a small town and life just somehow feels more personal. Those are still around, they just aren't well known (but they never really were). I mean it's like there are a lot of very large cities today but small towns are still there too.
Some of my best memories online are in golden era Tumblr, which was a pretty big social media. So I don't think social media, per se, is the issue.
YUP! This is exactly why I'm so passionate about it. Awfulness still happens, but it feels organic like the original days of the web.
"I’ve known Lemmy for a few hours and I feel like I’m back in the early spirit of the internet."
Different system, same issues.
People are people.
"Social media" is a really vague term. I think there are broadly 3 categories:
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Web2.0 social media: facebook, twitter, discord, reddit
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Forums: Old school web fora, (mastodon & lemmy?)
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Debateable social media: IRC, email chains/threads
Only the first category is relatively new and has captured the attention of the general public outside of nerds. The other two are either decentralised or are niche centralised sites. IMO it seems like the web 2.0 stuff is most problematic but not sure if it's the hyper-centralisation or their general popularity that is the issue.
More so, Internet has destroyed the spirit of conversation. When I was younger, people found me charming and intelligent when first meeting me after talking for a bit. Now, they can quickly "google" what I say and quickly learn that I am an ass, bullshitting and exaggerating what I don't know, but making it up to keep the conversation interesting.
There are still smaller communities out there. It can be discussed that Lemmy is a small community itself.
I guarentee you're not the only one