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how it feels to be on Lemmy rn (i.imgur.com)
submitted 3 years ago by to c/lemmyshitpost@lemmy.world
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[–] 29 points 3 years ago (2 children)

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    • [–] 10 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    Honestly I just jumped to Lemmy after dndmemes sent me this way and it feels like I'm delving into early internet forums back in the day, fresh and new and full of excitement for the future

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  • [–] 5 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    I know exactly what you mean. Fresh optimism. For fun, not for money or algorithms.

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  • [–] 0 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    Fresh optimism for the communities and the new apps all being furiously worked on right now. I’ve got Memmy, Mlem, and Voyager all installed currently and watching the rapid development of each is a hell of a lot more interesting than the one Reddit app that’s been dogshit since they bought it and stuffed it full of ads and is only getting worse.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago

    I should just probably try them all but do you have a preferred one so far? Currently using Memmy but honestly I finally dove back into something like this after a proper year without Reddit, to see how this community is doing and to see what the vibe is like.

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    • [–] 4 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    put an old man face on that kid and you've nailed it

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  • [+] 3 points 3 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 child)
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  • [–] 3 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    You might be right. I'm new here but so far I'm amused and surprised by the amount of 'classic' memes going around.

    I think for many of us in the mid 30s early 40s it boils down to having experienced a version of the Internet where content was king, not personality. Anyone could get their website out there but it was what you put in it that mattered, not who put it there (unless you were an actual celebrity). You could bump into all sorts of new information just by clicking from link to link. Then we saw and experienced first hand the rise of the search algorithms, the echo chambers, click bait and the cult to fluff that social media became pretty much since the beginning.

    The Internet we have now is certainly shinnier but only the way plastic is. When I look at the information being churned out and that gets passed around more often I can only think about it in terms of pollution. The equivalent of styrofoam pellets being manufactured for single immediate use that cover the information sphere and that just end up making people's life worse in the long term. Twitter, Meta and the like (none holds a candle to TikTok though) are no different from the factories that have been spilling poison down the drain for decades. The latter pollute our physical space, the first pollute our emotional an mental environments.

    I honestly don't think I'm being a grumpy old fart (though I am). This is the reason I preferred reddit a while ago and why I now came here. It sort of feels like those days when 'browsing' was about stepping out of your own world experience and into completely different ones.

    End of rant. Thanks if you made it here. :)

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago

    Honestly, I think we have better content nowadays, but said content is harder and harder to find. At the same time, said content probably gets more and more viewership as well.

    I feel like if I was born in the 90s, I would've killed to have content like Kurtzgesagt or LinusTechTips or Wendover or NileRed or Adam Ragusea etc etc. Although you had your Bill Nyes and Mythbusters and whatnot, there couldn't have been a way to make high-quality content without the resources and reach that a platform like YouTube offers today.

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    • [–] 3 points 3 years ago* (4 children)

    Don't forget your dual-wheel, 4D+ mouse!

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    • [–] 3 points 3 years ago

    Hard to believe our hover-keyboards used to have wires!

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    [–] 3 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    Reddit just nuked all my accounts, nice to back to a more open community!

    (first post)

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago (2 children)

    Wait what, how

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  • [–] 2 points 3 years ago*

    They only alternate theory I have is I use a VPN and that IP was flagged from another users abuse. But since there is no way to talk to the admins its all said and done. Also I bounce accounts (not to evade) as I have been doxxed on reddit more than once I keep my posting compartmentalized. They would all come back to that IP and would be seen as multiple ban evasions or an excuse to kick me. I'm pretty vocal on, well was vocal, about where the site was heading...

    RIP Aaron

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    • [–] 3 points 3 years ago*

    This image brought to you by the time-period when anything with young people had to have skateboarding, surfing, or roller blading.

    It was the law.

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    [–] 2 points 3 years ago

    This picture makes me nostalgic for an era I barely remember being alive for.

    sorry if i made anyone feel old

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    [–] 2 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    Did you guys know that lemmy is a series of tubes

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  • [–] 0 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    For th uninitiated:

    The internet is a series of tubes

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    • [–] 1 point 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago) (1 child)

    I feel like I'm back playing Ultima Online. Corp Por?

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    • [–] 1 point 3 years ago

    Velcro shoes were the best

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    [–] 1 point 3 years ago

    Does it really feel like the old web though? I'm a zoomie (22) and I kinda developed a rose tinted nostalgia for the old web (Windows 98 era) where I didn't even live in (tbf apparently a lot of zoomers have some nostalgia obsession with some sort of era).

    Veteran lads, can Lemmy capture the old web feeling?

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    [–] 1 point 3 years ago

    Hold on to your butts - we’re gonna surf the web

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    [–] 1 point 3 years ago

    Nice to meet you, fellow explorers of cyberspace!

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    [–] 1 point 3 years ago

    I love you guys. Lemmy is seriously the most fun I've had online in a long while. Also loving the serious posts and comments.

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    [–] 1 point 3 years ago (1 child)

    I was told it was weird to use the phrase "surfing the web" the other day. I am not even that old.

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    • [–] 0 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    On your mark, get set, we're riding on the internet...

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    • [–] 0 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    I just heard that international standards now stipulate that when referring to Internet and the WWW, that it is no longer a requirement to capitalize. its just internet and the web now, if anyone still even uses those words.

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