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Was his hand split in half? Did the internet do that?
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.
The Internet is still cool, you idiots just keep going to the same five sites.
I’ve decides to pretend its 1998, so it’s Newgrounds, webcomics and OSR blogs for me.
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.
Sounds like a wonderful man. I hope they raised enough money for treatment.
educate me
That’s amazing!
Thanks to all the influence operations, surveillance, AI slop, malicious scrapers, spam and bad-faith ideologues (from all sides).
Edit: typpo
Man, the internet used to be so cool.
It’s still is, the problem is that now most people think the so called platforms as the Internet.
Nah. Forums are mostly dead, most websites are ad-enhanced garbage and the proliferation of right-wing fucking morons in ALL THE COMMENT SECTIONS turned the internet to mostly shit. Its not anywhere near the quality from back in the days.
Not sure if forums are dead. I still get some information from (German) forums where the hardcore techies or enthusiasts hang.
You used to be able to find forums on any weird subject. Tech stuff has always been the easiest to find, it’s basically one of the only subjects for which you can even find somewhat active Lemmy communities (!).
Almost everything else has become Reddit communities or Discord servers.
The big, enshittified platforms take away most of the traffic and creative energy even from the couple of places that are basically cool, and on top of that many small sites have to deal with complicated regulations (a lot of which is kind of necessary because there is SO much violent propaganda on the internet nowadays, but at the same time they clearly diminish the experience compared to a site that isn’t strongly regulated but just doesn’t get targeted by bullshit as much).
So. which parts of reddit did they walk into?
/r/handholding
