It ain't years it's months ago...
this post was submitted on 04 Jun 2025
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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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Facebook only barely an idea mid 2000s?
Most of my friends had ditched MySpace for Facebook shortly after highschool and I graduated in 2003.
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.
I hate autoplay videos, and I think this feeling of unease when a video autoplays comes from the earlier days of the internet.
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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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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Not sure. I still remember the Great-NetNews-AOL-Hate (aka ‘me-too’) of 1995 :)
/s, I think
I’m part of the eternal September. It was glorious for us, but the old timers hated our ass.
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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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…
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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