I seriously cannot have any degree of nuanced conversation here.

Like I get it, we all know capitalism is bad, but it feels like every time I or anyone go towards discussing the steps that need to be taken to address current looming problems in the short term, someone has to jump in and shut it down with "capitalism bad >:[ " and tear down any idea presented because its not complete and total destruction of the current economic model.

The result just feels like an echo chamber where no actual solutions get presented other than someone posting whole ass dissertations on their 33-step (where 30/33 steps are about as vague as “we’ll just handle it”) plan to fully convert the world to an anarchist commune.

Edit: I still vastly prefer Lemmy and the fediverse and a whole, my complaint here is that many of you are TOO INTENSE. You blow up small scale discussion.

  • yeehaw
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    29 months ago

    I agree. I miss the olden days… Forums and static pages with gifs and shit. The golden era. Corps didn’t know much about it and piracy was rampant, information flowed freely.

    • @A_Random_Idiot
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      9 months ago

      found new shit via others suggestions, or web rings, cause there was no search engines.

      guest books, animated gifs, page hit counters… ah fuck now i’m all sad and nostalgic

      • yeehaw
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        29 months ago

        I nearly forgot about web rings and guest books. Actually there’s still a comment I made on a webpage that is still active from like 1996

        • @A_Random_Idiot
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          29 months ago

          oh man, and geocities and angelfire and aol/irc chat rooms…

          fuck I miss those days.

          • yeehaw
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            19 months ago

            This was my favourite era of internet. The wild wild west.

            • @A_Random_Idiot
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              9 months ago

              I’d give anything to have a temporal ethernet cable to access the old, pre-corporatized, pre-adpocalypse, pre-social media ruined internet.

              • yeehaw
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                19 months ago

                I forget what it’s called but there’s some that still exist to preserve this era

                • @A_Random_Idiot
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                  19 months ago

                  yeah,. but thats like drinking Nik-L-Nip’s in your 50s, man.

                  Just not the same.