• WolfyGamer29@lemmy.world
    87·
    1 year ago

    Honestly I just jumped to Lemmy after dndmemes sent me this way and it feels like I’m delving into early internet forums back in the day, fresh and new and full of excitement for the future

      • FordBeeblebrox@lemmy.world
        23·
        1 year ago

        Fresh optimism for the communities and the new apps all being furiously worked on right now. I’ve got Memmy, Mlem, and Voyager all installed currently and watching the rapid development of each is a hell of a lot more interesting than the one Reddit app that’s been dogshit since they bought it and stuffed it full of ads and is only getting worse.

        • Cypher19@sh.itjust.works
          1·
          7 months ago

          I should just probably try them all but do you have a preferred one so far? Currently using Memmy but honestly I finally dove back into something like this after a proper year without Reddit, to see how this community is doing and to see what the vibe is like.

    • WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world
      25·
      1 year ago

      Remember when forums would let you put unsanitized HTML in your signature and people exploited it to flood them with pop ups and redirects? Lemmy’s bringing that back, too!

      • clearleaf@lemmy.ca
        3·
        1 year ago

        I was on a forum looking for something once and someone had a flash game as their sig. It was like Portal The Flash Version but the gun was on a rail. And the dimensions of the flash viewport were like a typical sig, so it was pretty interesting just to play a game in such a strange aspect ratio. Not really relevant to anything but I haven’t thought of that in a really long time.

      • CritiGalDesist∞@lemmygrad.ml
        1·
        1 year ago

        Lemmy DID support HTML and iframes sometime ago. The devs scrapped it for security reasons and I hear they are planning to bring it back in future after making sure it is secure enough to use.

      • subnuggurat@lemmy.world
        35·
        1 year ago

        You might be right. I’m new here but so far I’m amused and surprised by the amount of ‘classic’ memes going around.

        I think for many of us in the mid 30s early 40s it boils down to having experienced a version of the Internet where content was king, not personality. Anyone could get their website out there but it was what you put in it that mattered, not who put it there (unless you were an actual celebrity). You could bump into all sorts of new information just by clicking from link to link. Then we saw and experienced first hand the rise of the search algorithms, the echo chambers, click bait and the cult to fluff that social media became pretty much since the beginning.

        The Internet we have now is certainly shinnier but only the way plastic is. When I look at the information being churned out and that gets passed around more often I can only think about it in terms of pollution. The equivalent of styrofoam pellets being manufactured for single immediate use that cover the information sphere and that just end up making people’s life worse in the long term. Twitter, Meta and the like (none holds a candle to TikTok though) are no different from the factories that have been spilling poison down the drain for decades. The latter pollute our physical space, the first pollute our emotional an mental environments.

        I honestly don’t think I’m being a grumpy old fart (though I am). This is the reason I preferred reddit a while ago and why I now came here. It sort of feels like those days when ‘browsing’ was about stepping out of your own world experience and into completely different ones.

        End of rant. Thanks if you made it here. :)

        • trouser_mouse@lemmy.world
          31·
          1 year ago

          Yes Geocities web rings with rotating skulls was the content king!

          Or maybe people rapping in AOL chat rooms

          • subnuggurat@lemmy.world
            2·
            1 year ago

            Sure, yeah trash is trash. If that’s how far you wanted to go you’d have plenty of it. But the web didn’t necessarily trend towards it. Plenty of other spaces where to go. Later, in the mid-late 2000s marketing saw how eagerly people swallowed trash and so the race to the bottom took speed. Most of the web today is aimed at the lowest common denominator. The rotating skullz are but the grand-daddies of the Tiks and the Toks IMO.

            • trouser_mouse@lemmy.world
              1·
              1 year ago

              Totally, many early forums and bulletin board systems had good discussion, it wasn’t all trash at all! But, there was also a lot of trash. The internet has always been a weird mix of wonderful information and genuine useful tools, and a blazing dumpster fire of shit, on fire.

        • TheGalacticVoid@lemm.ee
          1·
          1 year ago

          Honestly, I think we have better content nowadays, but said content is harder and harder to find. At the same time, said content probably gets more and more viewership as well.

          I feel like if I was born in the 90s, I would’ve killed to have content like Kurtzgesagt or LinusTechTips or Wendover or NileRed or Adam Ragusea etc etc. Although you had your Bill Nyes and Mythbusters and whatnot, there couldn’t have been a way to make high-quality content without the resources and reach that a platform like YouTube offers today.

      • superminerJG@lemmy.world
        19·
        1 year ago

        You’re not alone. Most people I know don’t even sort their files into directories anymore, they just search for it (particularly in cloud storages like Google Drive).

        In fact, when I took the introductory computer engineering course at my HS, the teacher made everyone sort their Google Drive files as an assignment.

        • WarmSoda@lemm.ee
          12·
          1 year ago

          I just found out that people use search on thier computers to find files and have no idea where anything is located. It hurts just thinking about it.

          And paradoxically they refuse to use search engines to find anything on the Internet.

          • ecks0fa@lemmy.world
            6·
            1 year ago

            I completely lost control of my folder structure after keeping all my old backups (before i had a network storage) on HDDs and later copying them over as Backup-Pc-X, Backup-Pc-Y, etc. I should clean up since years. But hey, so far the search worked :D

            • WarmSoda@lemm.ee
              4·
              1 year ago

              That I can understand. I have a folder on desktop I dump everything into that’s loose to sweep under the rug. Desktop23. Desktop22, etc. And these folders go back years on my external drive. They will not be organized ever.

              But I have the feeling you understand where things are supposed to go. The people I’m talking about have zero idea what’s in thier computer.

              • Nowyn@sopuli.xyz
                3·
                1 year ago

                I have been ill this year and as I am pretty limited in what I can do, I am finally sorting stuff properly. It is just that I usually don’t delete anything. Every time I change a device I dump stuff based on file type on folders either on cloud, device or external HDD thinking I will come back to it. Instead, I never come back. And because of my work, a bunch of stuff is pretty depressive so sorting a decade of files and images I would want to forget feels impossible. But I am making a dent.

                • silentashes@sh.itjust.works
                  1·
                  1 year ago

                  Digital detritus = SO not important. … i mean RELATIVELY. Trust me.

                  Go live your life, insofar as you are able to, friend :-)

                  Find an actual sharing group like #BuyNothingProject or #ToolLendingLibrary or something crew to kick it with.

                  or https://shareable.net for reading (been ages since I checked it).

        • trouser_mouse@lemmy.world
          2·
          1 year ago

          What the fuck is wrong with people, first cutlery just being flung in a drawer any which way, now apparently files just go wherever it’s all a cloud or whatever anyway isn’t it

      • Mohkia@lemmy.world
        13·
        1 year ago

        I think there are a lot of computer illiterate people I most generations but there seems to be an overlap of late gen x/early millennial thst kind of had to learn how computers and the internet worked if they wanted to use them as tech wasn’t as easy to use. Plus anyone older than that who used computers where more often considered nerds.

        These days more and more people don’t even have a computer and just do everything through their phones.

        • WarmSoda@lemm.ee
          6·
          1 year ago

          but there seems to be an overlap of late gen x/early millennial thst kind of had to learn how computers and the internet worked if they wanted to use them…

          That’s exactly what happened. It’s like how my grandfather knows absolutely everything about cars, he had to work on his if he wanted to use it.

      • DoctorPlasmatron@lemmy.ca
        1·
        1 year ago

        oh the turntables, back in the 90’s the stereotype was the 10 year old showing the 60 year old how to use the “computator”, nowadays maybe it’s the 60 year old showing the 10 year old there are open source alternatives for image editing apps, office apps, and most things with a tappable tablet interface.

  • Holodeck_Moriarty@lemm.ee
    36·
    1 year ago

    This image brought to you by the time-period when anything with young people had to have skateboarding, surfing, or roller blading.

    It was the law.

  • 5redie8@sh.itjust.works
    221·
    1 year ago

    This picture makes me nostalgic for an era I barely remember being alive for.

    sorry if i made anyone feel old

    • Apeman42@lemmy.world
      14·
      1 year ago

      If my calculations are correct, when this baby hits 88 Kb/s, you’re gonna see some serious shit!

    • trouser_mouse@lemmy.world
      2·
      1 year ago

      Bbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbdudududududueeeeperrrrrrpeeeeeeeeeeeeeeuhhhhhheeeeeeeeeg shhhkkkkkkrrrrkakingkakingkakingtshchchchchchchchcch brrrrrr

    • Mikekm@lemmy.world
      22·
      1 year ago

      Yep, I’m here for good too. Reddit will never get that magic back that it once had.

      • Che Banana@lemmy.ml
        8·
        1 year ago

        There is more variety of content here IMO. I like seeing more international posts even if i dont aleays understand the language or the context.

        Back there it was all ragey clickbait bot karma removed.

        • SpaceX724@lemmy.world
          7·
          1 year ago

          I feel like it’s not dominated by the same sort of content, but a lot of smaller communities and niche interests (at least the ones I’m interested in) have yet to develop on lemmy.

          • Che Banana@lemmy.ml
            1·
            1 year ago

            I’ve got a healthy sub list going, and am actually participating again instead of lurking. Ive got my default set to Alll-New so i come across some great things randomly. The other day some guy posted in ancient coins a greek coin that was about the size of your pinkey nail. Much more refreshing than some rehashed tweet by some asshole.

        • Clipper152@lemm.ee
          1·
          1 year ago

          There is more variety of content here IMO. I like seeing more international posts even if i dont aleays understand the language or the context.

          Wait, really? I’m having trouble finding non-English stuff even after sorting by new and subbing to non-English coms…

          • Che Banana@lemmy.ml
            2·
            1 year ago

            Yeah, really. Its pretty cool. There is a trend that it comes in batches though, like the Swiss sub with 5-6 posts, then the India, Indonesia etc…

      • BoxOfFeet@lemmy.world
        7·
        1 year ago

        This place is awesome. I like that I can recognize usernames in replies. It definitely feels closer than reddit.

      • Forty@lemmy.world
        31·
        1 year ago

        Amen to that. Maybe 5 years here if we’re lucky and then on to blemmy.

        • superkret@lemmy.world
          3·
          1 year ago

          I’m amazed it doesn’t feel like 4chan in 2005. Like, how is it possible that it’s not full of spam and racism? I hope it stays that way.

          • Obi@sopuli.xyz
            5·
            1 year ago

            Shhhh they’ll hear you.

            Really though, defederation is the reason why.

            • triplenadir@lemmygrad.ml
              1·
              1 year ago

              weird mispelling of “developers and initial server admins have actual prosocial politics instead of standard tech libertarian nonsense, setting the stage for effective moderation”

              (defederation wouldn’t have helped much if Lemmy was full of Nazi chuds when the reddit migration happened)

              • Obi@sopuli.xyz
                4·
                1 year ago

                Instance owners can have full control over who they federate with. From the start, the mainstream in the Fediverse has had a tolerant, open-minded and positive mindset. Over time instances that don’t follow this (e.g. by promoting hate speech) are defederated, leaving mostly decent discourse. Users that try to join instances that follows the Fediverse ethics while not belonging, and try to spread hate, get banned.

                We’re still in early days but this will keep happening until the verse is wide and large, and you can choose your own little corner that aligns with what you want, whether that’s more like what we have today, or the opposite end of the spectrum, but for now we get to enjoy to still have mostly only tolerant instances, and the nasty ones are defederated into oblivion.

                • DoctorPlasmatron@lemmy.ca
                  1·
                  1 year ago

                  kind of like when back in usenet days a usenet server could choose to not include certain newsgroups, such as someone not wanting to store all the data for alt.binaries.pron.hamsters on their server or whatnot?

    • superkret@lemmy.world
      5·
      1 year ago

      I love it. Less content = less addictive scrolling. Deleted reddit the moment lemmy finally let me make an account (on the 10th try or so).