• Pantherina@feddit.de
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    9 months ago

    The Fediverse, today.

    But no not really. If you are on Tiktok or shit like that suddenly there are actually people living close to you. Connecting to people you can actually meet is important.

    • soggy_kitty@sopuli.xyz
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      9 months ago

      I was not expecting anyone to say the TikTok era is the best of the internet. Each to their own I guess, you’re wrong though

      • Pantherina@feddit.de
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        9 months ago

        What? Everyone is on Tiktok, which is not the case with the Fediverse. The platform and lots of content suck, but it can also be valuable (short videos from things happening without press censorship and delay). The fediverse is still tiny in comparison and doesnt cover these things, like looking for restaurant reviews next door

  • agent_flounder@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    9 months ago

    Before the web when it was all ad free and just nerds was pretty cool. The email list / Forum era was pretty good.

  • LinkOpensChest.wav@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    9 months ago

    For me, it was the 90s, before the entire landscape got consumed by giant corporations. I know it wasn’t all roses back then, but it felt like you could find anything online, and it opened up a whole new world.

    Remember when almost every new web site had a guestbook and would sometimes let you sign up for an email address using their domain? I had a [username]@britneyspears.com email address for a while.

  • jet@hackertalks.comEnglish
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    9 months ago

    The best era is the first 5 years you experience it. That’s when all the magic happens. Recapturing that level of awe wonder and pure joy is hard after you become a veteran.

    • Preventer79@sh.itjust.worksOP
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      9 months ago

      closely followed by the period right before it you didn’t experience, but everyone around you is nostalgiajacking to…

  • Dizzy Devil Ducky@lemm.eeEnglish
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    9 months ago

    Anywhere from the 90s to the mid to late 2000s because that’s when you saw the most personal websites being made and what I would consider the golden era of Newgrounds. Now, I wasn’t able to experience the personal websites of the 90s, but through various means I’ve seen some really cool personal websites from back then.

  • MrScottyTay@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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    9 months ago

    Early YouTube and early Facebook were really good. I liked old Facebook, as well as the timeline update. I miss Joe it used to work. I don’t use it or any other equivalent social media because none of them work like that anymore. Lemmy is the only social media I use and that’s more of a discussion board rather than keeping up with IRL friends.

    Early YouTube comment was great before it got inundated with ads and sponsorships. I miss the silly humour you don’t really see that much anymore. The last good era of YouTube was the height of youtube haikus, that sadly, like a lot of things, got replaced by tiktok content.

  • BonesOfTheMoon@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    Livejournal in the late 90s-early 2000s. God I made such great lifelong friends there. Nowhere else has had that level of intimacy.

    • Dizzy Devil Ducky@lemm.eeEnglish
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      9 months ago

      I never got to experience that, but I recently paid for an Insanejournal account and so far, it’s pretty cool. I wish we could go back to the days where sites like Livejournal were popular.

  • 31415926535@lemm.ee
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    9 months ago

    I used to love doing web design. Was perfect career for me, a mix of creativity and coding. Websites then were art, creative, took risks. Then cms became standard, sites all looking the same. Sites are more user-friendly now, but I miss the wild, weird internet of its early days.

  • Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    The best era was 1993. I’d spend maybe 1 hour a day and read every new thing there was to read on the web.

    Things went quickly wrong after you couldn’t read every webpage update before new updates. The www was no longer human comprehensible.

    • ForgetPrimacy@lemmygrad.ml
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      9 months ago

      Google is so useless these days. It’s very common that my searches get actually zero results now. Like, what the fuck happened? Google used to identify its quality by how many hundreds of pages of (admittedly mostly useless) results it could return for each search. Now, when I do get results, it’s about a 3 to 4 ratio of useless ads to actual content.

      I have the Google rewards app that occasionally asks me questions about where I’ve been / what I’ve bought for which it will pay me a few nickels each. The other day it asked me questions about my use of ChatGPT and the relative trust I had for the answers given by the language model to my trust of the results from a Google search. The last question was an essay question asking me why I thought ChatGPT was better for the specific application I was using it for. Google paid me a whole goddamn dollar for telling it, in many colorful words, that I understood the tool I needed for my question wasn’t an ad generator so obviously I didn’t use Google.

  • 4grams@awful.systemsEnglish
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    9 months ago

    For me, right now. I’m having a blast figuring out how to self host all the enshittified services that I’m closing off access to.

    Catch 22 really, I’m enjoying it because I’m learning so much, so fast but probably shouldn’t have to and it’s not feasible for most I realize.