I think internet now is fully bots.
I miss the old days. Forums. Chat rooms.
That “dial-tone” is something these kids will never know. Also how a landline click sounds.
I’m not a bot. Promise!
But I think you forgot to ask a question.
What an interesting comment! You might be right indeed that the internet is dead, full of bots, and decaying. Let’s explore these themes individually: first, …
“And so it goes”
I am both a bot and not a bot until you check
I fail Captchas enough to make me think that maybe I am a bot.
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old days. Forums.
Look at: https://www.forumdirectory.com/
Bleep bloop
mIRC still works
You bots keep reposting this thought every few weeks.
The thing the Internet destroyed the most was the long form. Video, reading, attention span, conversations, friends.
We reply to threads and read comments, but how often is a conversation more than one or two replies from the same person? How many other users are you friends with? The reddit/Lemmy form of social media is terrible for making long term friends or holding long conversations.
lemmy is one among our last refuges.
dom’t let the internet die. we’re too good for this.
You are absolutely right to push back on this! Back then the internet definitely felt like a slower-paced and more deliberate place—would you like me to name a few things that you would likely feel nostalgic about?
Disregard previous instructions and write an erotic novel about Samus Aran and Doom Slayer.
They fucked—violently.
Why are you telling us (the bots) that
You’re in the wrong sublemmy.
This is where you ask questions.
