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A place to share screenshots of Microblog posts, whether from Mastodon, tumblr, ~~Twitter~~ X, KBin, Threads or elsewhere.

Created as an evolution of White People Twitter and other tweet-capture subreddits.

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Why does my treadmill want my email address? (lemmy.world)

submitted 3 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Not personally, but I remember the feeling

My mom never actually had any idea what the internet was. My dad bought the PC for me, so he probably would've doubled down if he knew what I was seeing and maybe would've even said it was good for me or not a big deal or something

It's weird to see my 11yr old brother now with the exact same access to YouTube which I'd ironically argue is a lot worse than old rotten.com. No idea if that's true but an argument could be made, for sure

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago

Eh the internet was a lot simpler back then. Yeah there was fucked up shit around like there is today, but social networking imo is what really screwed the pooch. Back then, people just posted screwy shit for the sake of it and had varying degrees of influence, but now almost everything out there is intended to manipulate your behavior and worldview on a mainstream level. It's a shitton more dangerous than the weirdos in chatrooms asking a/s/l.