• ZombiFrancis@sh.itjust.works
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    3 days ago

    I lost the music I made in college to the MySpace database loss/crash/whatever.

    Upside: the music I made in college is forever lost.

  • thulesgold@lemmy.world
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    3 days ago

    I left reddit for lemmy and now lemmy is just the same people complaining about the same stuff. What happened to cat pics, pirates, and robots?

    • FilthyHookerSpit@lemmy.world
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      2 days ago

      I think it’s kinda hard to find spaces where people are gonna be willfully ignorant of the issues currently plaguing our lives. Sure, everyone wants a break from it and not think about it the latest infringement on our rights but outrage fatigue is something we need to be aware of.

    • axb@lemmy.mlEnglish
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      3 days ago

      I opened Lemmy after like a year and this post made me smile. I don’t see this as ‘complaining’ considering I just arrived from the cesspool that’s reddit.

  • doingthestuff@lemy.lolEnglish
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    3 days ago

    One of my earliest experiences with the Internet was seeing a picture of a country girl in cowboy boots with a carrot up her ass and an ear of corn stretching her pussy. It was 1991. I also played bridge with people in Asia in the middle of the night.

    • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      3 days ago

      It would be worse. The site got bought out by News Corp (FOX’s parent company) in 2005.

      The site would be some kind of TurningPointUSA / DailyWire right-wing trash factory. Every song on there would be Ben Shapiro rapping or Oliver Anthony releasing the “Rich Men North of Richmond” techno remix.

      • Crikeste@lemm.ee
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        3 days ago

        No shot that’s actually the name of their parent company, it’s way too dystopian movie coated.

  • adm@lemm.eeEnglish
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    3 days ago

    For better or worse, content moderation was almost nonexistent. Of those 100s of forums and websites you could see just about anything. The degenerate and shock culture thrived as much as all the other random stuff. People can still find terrible things out there today but now there’s real effort to police and control the platforms. The big players don’t let the REAL terrible stuff on their systems. Rotten.com is always what I reference there. There used to be porn, TV shows, and movie, on YouTube. Copy right was a suggestion and free use was everywhere for homemade music videos and downloads. There was also less effort to protect children. There are still issues today but widely the internet is at least devided into more age appropriate spaces. Those spaces get invaded but it’s not nearly how it was. In the 90s or early 00s you were either assumed to be an adult or just as a kid tossed in with the general population. There was generally no avoidance if you were a minor like today.

    That’s not to say the protections that exist today are perfect. It is more so that they exist at all and at least for appearances effort is made.

    It kind of had a flea market / bazaar vibe. It really was that old west feel.

    There are SO many levels of Terms of Services that help keep the modern internet clean that we just didn’t have back then. Before monetization. These days, you have your ISPs, search engines, and web hosts all working to keep things clean at a secondary level before you even get to the website. Rotten.com can’t exist today as easily because it’s to find a host that would allow it’s content. Then it would have to be searchable, not end up a blacklisted domain on forum websites, and also have protection from digital attacks, and it’s content would have to be regulated to make sure it doesn’t break laws to get shut down.

    Back then, rotten.com was as easy to find as asking jeeves, or yahoo to show you a dead body. The whole internet was that. No laws no shared mortality.

    • DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social
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      3 days ago

      Liberalism is a capitalist ideology.

      The criticism is that late stage capitalism corrupts itself and becomes fascism/technocracy/feudalism/whatever as the powers of corporation and state merge.

      That or everyone dies from ecological collapse.

      Of course, the idea that it’s not capitalism when the state does it is a core capitalist conceit. A lot of socialists are trying to have their cake and eat it too on the definitions.