• eeltech@lemmy.world
    16·
    7 months ago

    Nowadays its all about monetization :/

    Lemmy is kinda refreshing and reminds me a lot of the early internet/reddit.

      • sp3ctr4l@lemmy.zip
        4·
        7 months ago

        Feeling sad from the debt you’ve racked up paying for digital clothes for your avatar in what can barely be described as a ‘game’?

        Welcome to Better Help, where you can pay us money to rapidly* connect you with a qualified* therapist who definitely won’t leak all of your sensitive health information so that online ads can drain you of even more money and mental stability!

      • milicent_bystandr@lemm.ee
        1·
        6 months ago

        Do you have trouble watching your favourite racist shows without the Imperials eavesdropping on - and occasionally executing - you? You need Nord VPN. Because Skyrim belongs to the Nords!

        Internet in Skyrim… Skynet? Interim?

    • gmtom@lemmy.world
      2·
      7 months ago

      Yeah me too.

      If you liked this comment make sure to annihilate that up vote button, follow my account and subscribe to my patreon so you can get access to comments like these 24 hours early and get a cool role on my personal discord!

      • milicent_bystandr@lemm.ee
        1·
        6 months ago

        I’m sorry, I think I annihilated that upvote button so hard I had an integer overflow

        Enjoy your technical downvote

    • SuperSaiyanSwag@lemmy.zipEnglish
      1·
      7 months ago

      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.

    • M137@lemmy.world
      0·
      6 months ago

      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”.

      • explodicle@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        01·
        6 months ago

        I can’t speak for everyone, but I post more frequently here than I did on reddit because we gotta get those numbers up.

  • DarkGamer@kbin.social
    1·
    7 months ago

    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

    • nova_ad_vitum@lemmy.ca
      2·
      7 months ago

      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.

      • chemical_cutthroat@lemmy.world
        1·
        7 months ago

        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!

        • ryannathans@aussie.zone
          1·
          7 months ago

          We don’t know that for fact, we can’t even agree on the age of the universe. Maybe there’s a big crunch