Lemmy is the only social media I have, it’s a peaceful life.
Psionicsickness 104 points 23 days ago
Bustedknuckles 34 points 23 days ago
YouTube is my other social media and it's getting stale quickly
shifty 6 points 23 days ago
I degoogled, so I don't login.
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I go to youtube website and its just a blank page with a sidebar and a searchbar. My subscriptions are just bookmarked pages of people I follow, or I subscribe through Grayjay.
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA 1 point 22 days ago
I want to do the same, but if I'm rehearsing on my own I might be playing along with a YouTube. My music account's history is basically my busking setlist.
I really should download the songs and make a Winamp playlist
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA 3 points 22 days ago
I was trying to find background music the other day while I did chores. Unless you know a specifc channel, there's a good chance your search takes you to Aimusic instead of music.
I've been known for having strong opinions from time to time
Tja 1 point 22 days ago
Why ignore the algorithm? Some of my favorite creators I found through the algorithm (suggested videos, homepage, etc). I just ignore the ones you don't like, you'll see less and less of them.
Example: A few weeks ago it tried to show me videos of Charlie Kirk, I marked them as boring and after 3 attempts it got the message and I haven't seen one since.
BlameTheAntifa 2 points 23 days ago
I have never really thought of YouTube as social media, but you have a point.
Ydna 2 points 23 days ago
It leaned further into it back during the google+ days. There were feeds that showed your friends activity, comments, reply videos, etc. It's interesting that they went in other directions.
red_bull_of_juarez -19 points 23 days ago
Your friend sounds like an snobbish ass. Just because something is offline doesn't mean it's not mediocre. There are many, many valid criticisms of social media. But when your friend mentions something they enjoy you don't seem very nice when you tell them that what they enjoy sucks. Don't yuck someone else's yum.
Seimhe 14 points 23 days ago
We’re friends, though. We’re honest with each other. I want to know his perspective even when we diverge.
So if I love pizza and he hates it, I don’t want my friend to tell me with a coat-hanger smile that he likes pizza too. I want to know how much he hates it with all the adjectives he can muster.
gndagreborn 13 points 23 days ago
I don't think that was at all the point the friend was making
undefined 8 points 23 days ago
This kind of inability to accept others’ point of view is why I don’t connect with people much anymore.
When I was younger I had lots of friends who had differing opinions and we had the openness to say “that’s fucking stupid” with each other, explain why and still remain friends.
These days you can slip up just once with a minor non-conforming opinion and people suddenly become unhinged. And I simply can’t take only talking about surface level topics to avoid conflict anymore.
darthsundhaft 2 points 23 days ago
Beat me to it!!! 😁
AngryCommieKender 34 points 23 days ago
I knew we were in trouble when Stumbleupon went down.
pelespirit 7 points 23 days ago
We need to bring that back. How did they even make money?
AngryCommieKender 24 points 23 days ago
I think the lack of money making was why it went down
pelespirit 10 points 23 days ago
That would be an amazing open source project. Nowadays, it probably wouldn't even be that hard to make the entire thing.
Seimhe 8 points 23 days ago
https://www.boredbutton.com/ is the closest I’ve found. Not open source unfortunately.
SpookyBogMonster 2 points 23 days ago
I like Cloudhiker
cloudshouter 4 points 23 days ago
Al Gores internet. It was a good time.
rmuk 22 points 23 days ago
Sounds like someone wants to go back to a website
uberfreeza 5 points 23 days ago
Where you can log on, log on, log on
rmuk 6 points 23 days ago
darthsundhaft 6 points 23 days ago
It’s like raaaaaiiiiin…
Cue "Only Happy When It Rains" by Garbage
FauxLiving 16 points 23 days ago
There are now 6 websites.
originalucifer 15 points 23 days ago
shit, you got images on your first websites?
lucky.
expatriado 6 points 23 days ago
i don't see where that is implied 🤔
originalucifer 3 points 23 days ago
fair!
cloudshouter 2 points 23 days ago
Yeah, but they were all drawn in Paint. Kids these days don’t have the patience to watch an image load one line at a time.
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA 1 point 22 days ago
I don't remember the program, but I remember drawing collaboratively with friends in IRC. Program reminded me of Paint
cloudshouter 5 points 23 days ago
Never had that, but I remember actually surfing the web of links between pages in the time before search engines.
NarrativeBear 4 points 23 days ago
All word of mouth back then, you would have a friend of a friend tell you about a website they visited. Then as soon as you got home you would pray you remembered the address as text-messaging was not a thing yet.
People were always asking, do you got any good websites when?
gastroglizzy 12 points 23 days ago
Eh, ish. It used to be only four:
Something Awful
Ebaum's World
YTMND
4 Chan
Bustedknuckles 8 points 23 days ago
I've heard of those, but never visited because I spent all of my bandwidth at zombocom
9point6 4 points 23 days ago
I mean they were some of the big ones, though digg, maybe newgrounds and even OG (no subreddits) Reddit was in the mix too
But you're forgetting all the thousands of random phpBB/vBulletin/myBB/Invision/SMF forums run by passionate nerds with only around 20-30 other equally passionate nerds using them
cabbage 3 points 23 days ago
I was hanging out on small phpbb forums and occasionally IRC. I didn't use the internet in English back them though, which probably improved my experience quite a lot.
Something awful and YTMND I've heard about but I have no idea what they were, 4chan is a shit stain, and Ebaum I've never heard of before this comment. So clearly they were not that monopolizing.
diaphragmwp 1 point 23 days ago
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PrimeMinisterKeyes 3 points 23 days ago
There are Facebooks I remember
All my life, though some have changed
Some 4channer, not for better
Some have E-baum and some remain
All these places had their moments
Geocities and friends, I still can recall
Zombo dead and some are living
In my life, I love Lemmy more
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA 1 point 22 days ago
Weebls stuff
NarrativeBear 9 points 23 days ago
Images loading pixel by pixel, line by line, took ages. I don't think I ever saw one full full-size photo for the first few years I was online.
Porn sites were a experience. I would load the first 1/6th of the image and be done. The rest was up to the imagination.
I was basically a crude LLM where I had to generate the rest of the image with minimal input.
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA 5 points 23 days ago
I remember when we started getting images
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA 2 points 22 days ago
I'm in jerboa, and if I click on the link/broken image symbol the image loads. I haven't checked web interface but I can later.
It's a quirk of some sites. Or using mp4, idk.
Imgonnatrythis 10 points 23 days ago
I remember watching the Netscape animation in excitement waiting for something cool to load in the browser window even if it was probably "under construction" 🚧
Haven't felt anything like that sitting in front of a computer in a very long time.
DanceMomsSavedMe 5 points 23 days ago
I wonder if kids now ever feel like that in front if the computer anymore. Its all just short dopamine hits with every scroll.
daannii 9 points 22 days ago
I can remember my first dick pic. I, 15, met some guy in his 30s in some yahoo chat room. I remember waiting so patiently to see what he looked like. As that's what I thought the photo was.
He told me he would buy me a plane ticket to see him.
How sweet.
Line by line. Waiting. Waiting. Another line.
A blurry dark photo. Hard to tell what it was.
Another line of pixels . Another.
The anticipation..
Another line.
Oh. Hey. Ya, pretty sure that's a dick. Cancel that.
vortexsurfer 6 points 22 days ago
A similar but also opposite experience in many ways: I vividly remember me and a friend (teenage boys, mid 90s) waiting for a picture of a naked lady on some website, slowly loading line by line. Took forever. Finally it failed when it got to her chest, just above the boobs we wanted to see 😢
Artemis_Mystique 6 points 22 days ago
on the shitpost meter you score 20%
rob_t_firefly 6 points 23 days ago
That tweet's eighth birthday is coming up soon, and we are all decrepit.
SeptugenarianSenate 2 points 22 days ago
private equity firm but for memes
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Welcome to Lemmy Shitpost. Here you can shitpost to your hearts content.
Anything and everything goes. Memes, Jokes, Vents and Banter. Though we still have to comply with lemmy.world instance rules. So behave!
Rules:
1. Be Respectful
Refrain from using harmful language pertaining to a protected characteristic: e.g. race, gender, sexuality, disability or religion.
Refrain from being argumentative when responding or commenting to posts/replies. Personal attacks are not welcome here.
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2. No Illegal Content
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I mentioned a meme I saw to a friend of mine and it turns out he doesn’t have social media at all. He just said “The mediocrity of it…” and we went back to talking about other stuff again.
He had a point.
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