I’ve been using RIF and old.reddit.com for as long as they existed. Reddit since the big Digg transition. Hope to never see the same happen to Lemmy!!

The Netscape loading logo was pretty cool, and of course it took a while to load every page!

A bit later than what I’d call the early internet, I’d say my favourite memory was winning a Super Soaker CPS 2500 when I was 13.

Yes, lemmy is pretty good quality, we of course need more people to browse new, I hardly ever on Reddit, but when I do it’s shit compared to here 👍

It’s wine when they have it but yes it turns into literal horseshit by the time it trickles down.

There’s just enough people in the middle class, pacified by their Netflix accounts and multiple yearly vacations to not give a fuck about the rest of us ☹️

And of course us working smucks get to taste all that shit just enough to want to struggle paycheck to paycheck, if we’re lucky

Arrrr matey, I code all my pirate maps in base64. I suggest ye do the same, matey. Arrrrrrrggggh 🦜

Sheesh. And all the muskites will still find a way to spin this as being the result of his genius…

I’ve been banned for spreading racist hate by warning someone looking for a realtor to avoid one that was discussed without issue in the sub 9 months prior… For running a racist ad poking fun of Asians… I think they replaced the humans who double check bans and reports with monkies, or AI

Didn’t they go from like 200 to 2000 employees? And yet they:

• no longer answer emails

• No longer respond to DMs within their platform

• have a ban appeal form they don’t even check. I literally made stupid jokes about a plot to poison Biden to see if it was monitored. 99% sure it’s not…

I’m sick and tired of thos being the Age of Faceless Corporations. Google and Facebook normalized it. Everyone else is moving towards it. Twitter automatically responds with 💩. Hell even local businesses (chains and non chains) like Score Pizza or Kingston Burger Company don’t list a head office address, email, phone number or anything. They just want your money but not to have to deal with you.

Like what’s going on with the world these days? It’s obviously natural for the human mind to seek smart or lazy ways to do things, and there’s always been that loser at work everyone has to pick up the slack for… but these days it feels like everyone is pushing things to the limits, like it’s reversed and everyone wants to be slackers until the people picking up the slack get burnt out, or the business or organization just becomes a shell of what it wants was while simultaneously demanding more and more money. Policing for example, budgets are probably historically high, mostly from taxes, they don’t police the streets or hand out tickets, people drive and park however they want, corporations and driving instructors have non-road legal cars (way above 30% tint in front windows etc).