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Yeah. It used to all just come from ebaums world and Ian’s shoelace site.
Remember buying a “yellow pages style” book of what websites you could go to and half of them didn’t work? lol
Never had that, but I remember actually surfing the web of links between pages in the time before search engines.
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?
Come to NomadNet… there are no screenshots… or actual images… just text and a little micron (think ascii) art
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.
I just use Lemmy, fuck the technocrats
Where mediocrity is an aspirational goal
Lemmy is the only social media I have, it’s a peaceful life.
YouTube is my other social media and it’s getting stale quickly
YouTube is still amazing, you just have to ignore the algorithm, which is easy enough through subscriptions
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.
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
I turned YouTube history off and just watch videos through “my subscriptions”
For me it’s a game changer
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.
I do something similar, not as many extensions and very incomplete bookmarks. Most of the time I just go through a list in my head, so sometimes I remember a channel I haven’t checked in a while and then have enough videos to watch for a week.
I basically did the same thing but have a YouTube downloader that puts them on my Plex server. So I can watch a show then like a YouTube video and call it a night
I wanted to set that up to for a while. But I don’t have a home server, just a seedbox and it’s limited in what I can do. What software are you using?
I’m using pinchflat on it. The trickiest part was just the naming scheme in pinchflat for the videos and the library configuration on plex so it shows them correctly.
Also I got blocked by YouTube a few times because I would pause it for a while then start it up and it would download way too many so they would block me for like a month
Thanks, I’ll have a look if the server supports it.
I have never really thought of YouTube as social media, but you have a point.
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.
Yes, but it’s very white and Anglo so it doesn’t feel like a “worldwide” web.
It’s kinda like an MMO. We’re all here, but we likely won’t cross paths again.
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.
I don’t think that was at all the point the friend was making
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.
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 become completely unhinged. And I simply can’t take only talking about surface level topics anymore.
shit, you got images on your first websites?
lucky.
Nice hair
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Nice eyes
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2 eyes is a good amount of eyes
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Nice mouth, lovely smile
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Good face
i don’t see where that is implied 🤔
fair!
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.
private equity firm but for memes
Eh, ish. It used to be only four:
Something Awful
Ebaum’s World
YTMND
4 Chan
Didn’t frequent any of them, I had several forums I frequented though
Now most forums are dead
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
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.
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 moreUmm actually we also had Lemon party. But plebs like you probably haven’t heard of it.
I’ve heard of those, but never visited because I spent all of my bandwidth at zombocom
But what can you do at zombocom?
You can do anything at zombocom. Anything at all.
The infinite is possible. The unattainable is unknown. The only limit is yourself.
Now I kind of want a shirt with all this bullshit on it. It maybe a mug
Welcome to Zombocom
This is Zombocom
Welcome
This is Zombocom
Welcome to ZombocomYou can do anything at Zombocom
Anything at all
The only limit is yourself
Welcome to Zombocom
Welcome to ZombocomThis is Zombocom
Welcome to Zombocom
This is ZomboCom, Welcome
Yes, this is Zombocom
This is ZomboCom and welcome to you who has come to ZomboComAnything is possible at Zombocom
You can do Anything at Zombocom
The infinite is possible at Zombocom
The unattainable is unknown at ZombocomWelcome to Zombocom
This is Zombocom
Welcome to Zombocom
Welcome
This is ZomboCom
There are now 6 websites.
I’m old enough to remember when the World Wide Web was so new it had to use the full URL to differentiate itself from established services like Telnet and Gopher.
Al Gores internet. It was a good time.
That tweet’s eighth birthday is coming up soon, and we are all decrepit.
on the shitpost meter you score 20%
you missed an opportunity to screenshot this from Reddit and post it here
Isn’t this post ironic, dontcha think?
It’s like raaaaaiiiiin…
I love the fediverse because it filters those screenshots down to the best ones. You all do great work!
It’s like raaaaaiiiiin…
Cue “Only Happy When It Rains” by Garbage
Beat me to it!!! 😁
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.
I wonder if kids now ever feel like that in front if the computer anymore. Its all just short dopamine hits with every scroll.
