• Tigbitties
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    2191 year ago

    Google SEO has homogenized the internet with vapid marketing content. The internet is one big commercial. The reason Reddit got popular was because communities found and shared good content and created more by talking about it. Now ads are disguised as posts and memes.

    The internet is getting as bad as radio.

    • ɐɥO
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      1 year ago

      The internet is getting as bad as radio.

      Lemmy kinda feels like the 2000’s internet and I love it

      edit: formatting

        • @Pattern
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          511 year ago

          The whole internet used to be like this and it was lovely.

          • @[email protected]
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            Let’s not romanticize the old web too much. It had its problems too:

            • Half-done html pages with under_construction.gif or cliparts copypasted from Word. Some went through multiple editors like Frontpage and Dreamweaver which ended up producing spaghetti HTML.

            • Autoplaying midi from songs probably from Limp Bizkit, Metallica, Blink 182, etc. Did I mention that MIDI volumes count as separate from normal ‘Media’ volumes, and were often cranked to the MAX?

            • It was a time when HTML/CSS/JS would chaotically intertwine with proprietary plugins like Flash and ActiveX. “Best viewed from Internet Explorer at 800x600” was a thing. Readability? Accessibility? Forget about it.

            • You paid by minute on dial-up connection until ADSL appeared. Good luck trying to download that tenchi_muyo_hentai.jpg.

            • @Aceticon
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              21 year ago

              That was more the 90s - the time of things like Geocities - than the 2000s.

              By the 2000s there had already been one Internet Boom & Bust and things on the Internet were way more comercialized than is earlier times of handmade sites, pre-CSS webpages and ActiveX components.

        • @whileloop
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          151 year ago

          Cries in 2001 birth year.

          • @[email protected]
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            Same
            Hello fellow… are we considered as gen-zedders or tail end millennials? Because I have friends born in 97 and they are definitely not Gen Z

            • @[email protected]
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              Millennials, according to Wikipedia,

              The generation typically being defined as people born from 1981 to 1996

              After that is Gen Z and Gen Alpha starts somewhere around 2010.

              So 1997 would be an older Gen Z

              • @silverbax
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                21 year ago

                That generational ‘designation’ has been changed so many times it’s not credible.

                Gen X was originally they ‘children of the baby boomers’. If someone was born in 1981, they were young Gen X for most of their life, now they are told they are ‘Millennials’

            • @whileloop
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              21 year ago

              I grew up around cousins who were all older than me, so I think I was influenced more by 90s culture than most of my peers. I think you and I are the awkward in-between.

            • @[email protected]
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              11 year ago

              1997 is a funny birthyear 😀 on one hand you grow up in “traditionell way” and thus you understand older folks who don’t understand new slang but on the other hand you understand the digital natives who grow up with all that attention grabbing BS.

              • @[email protected]
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                11 year ago

                Yeah, I feel like people born up until around the early 00s still got to experience what life without smartphones & social media was like

        • @skyspydude1
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          101 year ago

          Imagine content creation that was done purely for the fun of creating content and sharing info, albeit with literally zero hope of receiving any money. Better in some ways, worse in others.

          • @[email protected]
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            11 year ago

            Pretty much.

            As soon as people realized you could make money generating content, it all became homogenized shit.

            Same thing with video games. I miss the days when people didn’t treat them like a job.

            Now every gamer thinks and plays like they can go pro, similar to elementary schoolkids on the basketball court thinking they’ll go pro.

      • @psycho_driver
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        131 year ago

        It just reminds me of early reddit before it was taken over by the dumbs.

        • @TwilightVulpine
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          251 year ago

          Eh, I’d be careful with this sentiment. A significant part of internet’s decline comes from people who think of themselves as too smart and rationalize their own nonsense.

        • @cheese_greater
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          21 year ago

          It makes me wonder tho: is Lemmy sustainable? I never want to get invested in something like Reddit again when there’s no proper and respectful end game for all the communities that make up their lifeblood.

          • @psycho_driver
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            11 year ago

            In my experience all good things on the internet come to an end. Usually when big money starts meddling.

        • ɐɥO
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          51 year ago

          I’m hosting my instance and website in my basement and its awesome

      • @[email protected]
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        41 year ago

        Yup and hopefully only the beginning. The fediverse is like a better internet without big tech.

      • @[email protected]
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        41 year ago

        Yeah. I’m noticing when things get too big, undesirables start creeping in.

        ‘Undesirable’ in this sense would be people with more money than sense and incredibly low standards for what they spend it on. They are the kinds that are proud to be ripped off and businesses will cater to them over smarter folk.

    • @demlet
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      131 year ago

      Oof, that last sentence hits home.