I joined during the first Reddit exodus, and it seemed like for ages the amount of Lemmy content was generally increasing (sometimes quickly, sometimes slowly, but overall increasing). Now it seems that when I sort by New, I get through everything since my last visit much more quickly than I used to. Is that my imagination, or is the activity declining?

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[–] BeefandSquints@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

Missing the Internet of my youth makes me feel older than almost anything else.

[–] AFKBRBChocolate@lemmy.ca 7 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

Fewer things are sadder than the reality of the Internet compared to what we envisioned early on.

[–] BeefandSquints@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

It's perhaps the greatest tragedy of my lifetime, I'm truly not exaggerating. We went from the free sharing of the majority of human knowledge to forcing people to sell their souls for YouTube money.

[–] AFKBRBChocolate@lemmy.ca 5 points 10 hours ago

I feel the same way. I was a CS major in the early 80s. I watched the internet become something amazing, and then I watched it rot. Heartbreaking.