I don’t feel like it’s new users not knowing etiquette that’s the problem. I think it’s corporate greed and enshittification.
The internet has been dumbed down to a handful of high-traffic sites, and those are trying to make a buck of us. You ran a server/website for your own benefit, not to make a dollar. It’s corpo greed, I tell ya…
T156@lemmy.world 5 days ago
I feel like this comment could at least benefit from a rough explanation of what Eternal September was. Someone unfamiliar with Y2K isn’t likely to be familiar with the term.
Back in the day, it used to be that every September, there would be an influx of new users on the internet, BBS, what have you, every September, because of the school/uni holidays. Because they were unfamiliar with internet etiquette, they’d be confused by the existing terminology, or be a little annoying to the existing users, by not being familiar with the culture there.
Eternal September was a point where every day on the internet was September. There would always be people new to the internet on it, enough for there to be a major impact.
rodneylives@lemmy.world 5 days ago
The term came from Usenet, after AOL opened up internet access to its users.
osanna@lemmy.vg 4 days ago
Hey, asl
LoveEspresso@cafe.coffee-break.cc 3 days ago
I wasn’t aware of this aspect of September though :)))
JackbyDev@programming.dev 4 days ago
On Discord I always get more DMs around certain times of year, I think it’s from college kids getting on there for the first time and not knowing the general etiquette. Or thinking you need to send a friend request to someone before talking to them. Interesting how some patterns return.
LoveEspresso@cafe.coffee-break.cc 3 days ago
Couldn’t figure out how discord works.
JackbyDev@programming.dev 2 days ago
You’re not missing too much. There’s sort of a set of customs most servers have as well that are counter intuitive to new users. What’s frustrating is that most mods are so used to them that they forget how unobvious they are.