Nowadays its all about monetization :/
Lemmy is kinda refreshing and reminds me a lot of the early internet/reddit.
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Thats the crux of it all. The a lot of the funniest videos 15+ years ago were just random videos on random accounts. There was no monetary incentive, so a lot accounts were just people who luckily captured something funny and uploaded it. Creative stuff felt authentic too, they were not chasing a trend, they were just trying to show off their original skills. I still love a lot of what we have today, but it is getting buried by trend chasers.
I don't think there will ever be a place like the old web again. Lemmy is better than reddit, but lots of the crap from there is just as common here, stuff that really wasn't as common before. I'm absolutely certain a disturbing amount of people say dumb shit, make spelling mistakes and stuff like that simply to get "interraction".
I can't speak for everyone, but I post more frequently here than I did on reddit because we gotta get those numbers up.
Just with a lot more communists
Whenever I feel like this, I just visit https://zombo.com and I feel better. Anything is possible at https://zombo.com.
Where you can do anything! I love that this still exists.
Back in my day the Internet was better, no video, we had to connect with 56k moderns, the hardware cost a fortune, most people were in AOL, we had to upload both ways in the snow, had to wait for titty pics to load one line at a time, and we liked it that way…
You kids today with your tikky Tok and your faces-book don't understand
I remember trying to pirate Doom at some point in the 90s over a 56k modem. It was a 10mb download. I got shouted at by my parents for tying up the phone line the whole evening but I persisted. Turns out it was just the demo for Doom so I didn't even pirate it really.
Good times.
Old guy here. Word.
ITT: anon realizes the world doesn’t stop changing for everyone, what once was will soon cease to be
You’ll be alright OP
All is temporary. Change is the only constant.
Technically change isn't a constant. Eventually everything will stop changing, because all of the atoms will have drifted too far apart to react to each other, and the universe will just be a thin soup of everything that will never touch anything ever again. Tomorrow is Wednesday, though, so only a few more days until the weekend!
We don't know that for fact, we can't even agree on the age of the universe. Maybe there's a big crunch
Need that meme play list link.
I'm so over YLYL thread's full of fluigiwiggle shit
While I'll agree the internet has been overrun by shortform shit, calling internet memes uncreative is such a boomer-ass take. This guy is just nostalgia baiting for points.