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diffaldo @lemmy.dbzer0.com

15h ago

New internet

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Big shout out to some muscians like DEBBY FRIDAY, DEBBY FRIDAY's blog, and Amyl and the Sniffers for makign websites that are just a blast of fresh air.
- hotdog stand my beloved
- Amyl and the sniffers are GOAT

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

Please, make a website. Open notepad, write some jank html, and be proud of it. It literally doesn't matter what you put on it, comics, a blog, I don't care, just make a website, make a little corner of the internet for yourself.

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

Wiby.me is a search engine for old style websites.
- And Marginalia Search for non-corporate, independent, stuff
  https://test.marginalia.nu/

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.

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.
- True, http://www.savewalterwhite.com/
  
  Sounds like a wonderful man. I hope they raised enough money for treatment.
- 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
- educate me
  
  Make sweet alcoholic potions

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.

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.
  
  The problem is that people just use search engines that categorize websites with algorithms and serve the most popular ones (which are these platforms) so this is the only side of the internet they are exposed to.
  
  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).

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.

So. which parts of reddit did they walk into?
- /r/sounding
- /r/handholding

Thanks to all the influence operations, surveillance, AI slop, malicious scrapers, spam and bad-faith ideologues (from all sides).
Edit: typpo

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