Yeah me too.
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eeltech@lemmy.world 2 years ago
Nowadays its all about monetization :/
Lemmy is kinda refreshing and reminds me a lot of the early internet/reddit.
gmtom@lemmy.world 2 years ago
milicent_bystandr@lemm.ee 2 years ago
I’m sorry, I think I annihilated that upvote button so hard I had an integer overflow
TwoBeeSan@lemmy.world 2 years ago
As the cycle continues the more niche places will continue to have that feel. Always vigilant for the nuttos but comes with it being a non mainstream community. Good and bad.
SuperSaiyanSwag@lemmy.zip 2 years 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.
themeatbridge@lemmy.world 2 years ago
Nowadays…
If there is one eternal constant in human history, it’s that every generation inaccurately believes that the problems they face are new.
Human creates thing.
Thing is cool.
Humans exploit thing.
Thing is no longer cool.
Humans reminisce about how cool the thing used to be, and lament the loss of cool.
If Lemmy gets popular enough, it too will be monetized and we’ll al have to find somewhere else to go.
Zink@programming.dev 2 years ago
If the future involves big popular mainstream paid instances, it sounds like the fediverse was a success.
Lemmy won’t be what it is now, but our niche instances can still exist.
mindbleach@sh.itjust.works 2 years ago
OnlyTakesLs@sh.itjust.works 2 years ago
Just with a lot more communists
Arelin@lemmy.zip 2 years ago
Explains why it’s not monetized to shit
milicent_bystandr@lemm.ee 2 years ago
Just don’t let a communist government get hold of it.
explodicle@sh.itjust.works 2 years ago
That’s an oxymoron, comrade!
M137@lemmy.world 2 years 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”.
milicent_bystandr@lemm.ee 2 years ago
Culture changes. The best we can do is keep influencing it for the better, just wherever we’re able.
explodicle@sh.itjust.works 2 years 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.
SlopppyEngineer@lemmy.world 2 years ago
It hasn’t reached the critical mass for monetization. It’s not ripe for the picking yet.
andrew_bidlaw@sh.itjust.works 2 years ago
I was to comment that this realization came to me when I’ve found an antique but active forum about gore, that I can’t access it anymore, and I’m stuck thinking if it’s for the better.
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sp3tr4l@lemmy.zip 2 years ago
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If you used one of these things to sort of mop up whatever data you have out there that private brokers have, and then followed your very good advice and used a different DNS system, along with an actual no log, obfuscated payment VPN…
That might actually result in what apparently we olds have known as basic online privacy.
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sp3tr4l@lemmy.zip 2 years ago
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