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The Internet is still cool, you idiots just keep going to the same five sites.
Sounds like a wonderful man. I hope they raised enough money for treatment.
I’ve decides to pretend its 1998, so it’s Newgrounds, webcomics and OSR blogs for me.
educate me
That’s amazing!
Right?! The Internet is full of cool shit still.
It’s so often depressing on Lemmy, with the same few sad/angry people shitting on everything. Break out of your bubble and go explore. Find joy again.
We need a community that displays all that cool shit
It was great before corporations took over.
While there are still cool places to explore in the internet, yeah, it sucks that people help to spread the same tending things. I think platforms like Meta, Google, etc. are the culprit. They hook people into their so-called ecosystems and people just can’t see the cage they are inviting others to inhabitate.
BTW, do people still meet online and get married from random chats?
BTW, do people still meet online and get married from random chats?
More than they used to, I personally know 2 couples who met in FFXIV and one who met in a piracy IRC of all places
who met in a piracy IRC
The most based backstory lol
- "If buying isn’t owning,…
- …then piracy isn’t stealing"
– probably the engravings on their wedding rings, one part of the sentence on each.
Internet used to be a cool toy. Now it’s a useful tool. You can still find cool toys if you look tho.
Helps if you have kids. Middle school is still the wild west and anything can come out of it. Kids always find the toys.
I think what you are calling toys are what I would call addictions. They can get innovative with finding ways to access those addictions, but really they just want that mind numbing, repetative flashing lights and noises. Anything to shut down and avoid thinking, like a bunch of zombies.
Sorry. That’s just the rant of a 7th grade teacher.
Well yeah that happens too, but they also use things in ways you’d never expect, mainly with the goal of being fun.
Shout out to all these forums all these forums that still exist!
Neocities, the Fediverse, and Gemini Protocol sites are where I spend the vast majority of my online free-time, and it’s so much more pleasant than the big corporate slop websites
Never heard of the first and third one. Care to elaborate?
Neocities.org is pretty straightforward it’s a revival of Geocities. People make personal websites or sites for their weird niche interests. It has a very minor social media component where you can ‘follow’ people’s sites, and you get updates when they get edited.
Gemini is a web protocol, like HTTP, but it’s text focused, and geared towards non-corporate, hobbyist use. It has a mirror of Wikipedia, its own search engines, a BBS board, etc. To access it you’d need a special web browser. I happen to really like Lagrange
I don’t get what inherent corporate use the https protocol itself has but thanks for the info dump. I’ll take a look. Especially since I even nvere herad of Geocities before.
Wiby.me is a search engine for old style websites.
And Marginalia Search for non-corporate, independent, stuff
So. which parts of reddit did they walk into?
/r/handholding
/r/sounding
I don’t know what it says about me that I instantly recognize that Salad Fingers poster.
One doesn’t ever really forget salad fingers.
Was his hand split in half? Did the internet do that?
I think that’s the artist showing his hand making the motion of cutting across the throat like people often do to say “stop doing that immediately.”
Oh, I see now. I thought it was split in half and stitched back together.
Thanks to all the influence operations, surveillance, AI slop, malicious scrapers, spam and bad-faith ideologues (from all sides).
Edit: typpo
