Fresh optimism for the communities and the new apps all being furiously worked on right now. I’ve got Memmy, Mlem, and Voyager all installed currently and watching the rapid development of each is a hell of a lot more interesting than the one Reddit app that’s been dogshit since they bought it and stuffed it full of ads and is only getting worse.

Came for the decentralization, stayed for the nonconsensual lemon party redirects.

I was on a forum looking for something once and someone had a flash game as their sig. It was like Portal The Flash Version but the gun was on a rail. And the dimensions of the flash viewport were like a typical sig, so it was pretty interesting just to play a game in such a strange aspect ratio. Not really relevant to anything but I haven't thought of that in a really long time.

This is a Good Joke

Lemmy DID support HTML and iframes sometime ago. The devs scrapped it for security reasons and I hear they are planning to bring it back in future after making sure it is secure enough to use.

You might be right. I'm new here but so far I'm amused and surprised by the amount of 'classic' memes going around.

I think for many of us in the mid 30s early 40s it boils down to having experienced a version of the Internet where content was king, not personality. Anyone could get their website out there but it was what you put in it that mattered, not who put it there (unless you were an actual celebrity). You could bump into all sorts of new information just by clicking from link to link. Then we saw and experienced first hand the rise of the search algorithms, the echo chambers, click bait and the cult to fluff that social media became pretty much since the beginning.

The Internet we have now is certainly shinnier but only the way plastic is. When I look at the information being churned out and that gets passed around more often I can only think about it in terms of pollution. The equivalent of styrofoam pellets being manufactured for single immediate use that cover the information sphere and that just end up making people's life worse in the long term. Twitter, Meta and the like (none holds a candle to TikTok though) are no different from the factories that have been spilling poison down the drain for decades. The latter pollute our physical space, the first pollute our emotional an mental environments.

I honestly don't think I'm being a grumpy old fart (though I am). This is the reason I preferred reddit a while ago and why I now came here. It sort of feels like those days when 'browsing' was about stepping out of your own world experience and into completely different ones.

End of rant. Thanks if you made it here. :)

You're not alone. Most people I know don't even sort their files into directories anymore, they just search for it (particularly in cloud storages like Google Drive).

In fact, when I took the introductory computer engineering course at my HS, the teacher made everyone sort their Google Drive files as an assignment.

I think there are a lot of computer illiterate people I most generations but there seems to be an overlap of late gen x/early millennial thst kind of had to learn how computers and the internet worked if they wanted to use them as tech wasn't as easy to use. Plus anyone older than that who used computers where more often considered nerds.

These days more and more people don't even have a computer and just do everything through their phones.

Not only you. My age range between 20-30 also felt the same.... Haiyah

oh the turntables, back in the 90's the stereotype was the 10 year old showing the 60 year old how to use the "computator", nowadays maybe it's the 60 year old showing the 10 year old there are open source alternatives for image editing apps, office apps, and most things with a tappable tablet interface.

Trust me bruv, there more hacker youngsters here then you realise.

After Gen Z, do we start over with Gen A?

I use shift and the scroll wheel. That’s on Ubuntu though. Not sure about other OSes.

If my calculations are correct, when this baby hits 56Kb/s, you're gonna see some serious shit!

FTFY

Hey I’m not even 40!

is this a crossover between my two favorite shows?

Run DMC

Here is an alternative Piped link(s): https://piped.video/watch?v=_cZC67wXUTs&t=0

Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.

I'm open-source, check me out at GitHub.

There is more variety of content here IMO. I like seeing more international posts even if i dont aleays understand the language or the context.

Back there it was all ragey clickbait bot karma removed.

This place is awesome. I like that I can recognize usernames in replies. It definitely feels closer than reddit.

Amen to that. Maybe 5 years here if we're lucky and then on to blemmy.

Try looking at your comment through this link.

https://mlmym.org/lemmy.world/comment/1282499

This site feels like reddit from ~2010. IE back before all the monetization and add bullshit.

Yeah it's much less addictive for some reason. But the percentage of posts I am interested in is greater

Also wayyyy fewer retarded meme comments. So nice to not be slapped with the same stupid jokes over and over.

Pseudo make sandwich 😉

What's YTMND?

Yeah for one we didn't have up-points on all our posts and comments, and even in more active BBSes, forums, or chat rooms, you rarely had as many people in one "place" at a time. Really your only method of interaction or "reacting" or registering approval/disapproval was through writing something of your own.

And nothing ever went viral, because no one but a bunch of nerds cared about what happened on the internet.

BBS had threaded discussion and different topics and servers in the 80s, a lot like the fediverse

It does a bit. Modern internet has walled gardens and constant rage bait. Havent seen it yet here.

Yeah I've already heard about that. I absolutely love those website designs. Each site beautifully represent the creator's personality, which makes it fun exploring these sites.

Plus there's not enough dancing baby gifs or under construction signs.

yeah, we'd need more Geosities banner ads and html tags to go back to the Macweb1.0/Mosaic era. ....Sometimes I still visit zombo.com to feel young again.

Yeah that's totally understandable. I just really love all the old web feeling recapturing neocities sites like these: https://exo.pet/, https://dokode.moe/, https://shishka.neocities.org/shishka/new

Hey kid, I'm a computer

Stop all the downloadin'

Where's the cursor? Where's the eraser?

now my brain has melted

i share your memory

I love the idea of an open-sourced version of YouTube, however, there are no subtitles or any good enhancers on that site. Am I missing something there?

the old town information road

oh yeah!

Very nice

👍🏻

They only alternate theory I have is I use a VPN and that IP was flagged from another users abuse. But since there is no way to talk to the admins its all said and done. Also I bounce accounts (not to evade) as I have been doxxed on reddit more than once I keep my posting compartmentalized. They would all come back to that IP and would be seen as multiple ban evasions or an excuse to kick me. I'm pretty vocal on, well was vocal, about where the site was heading...

RIP Aaron

Shit sorry I have another thread going on this and I'm getting crossed up. More info:

https://lemmy.world/comment/1310779

There is a whole lemmy server dedicated to that.

LemmyNSFW.com

I shun it several times a day. It's exhausting.

Hang on I'm just shunning it myself but once I'm done I'll let you know