• EarlGrey@discuss.tchncs.de
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    17 days ago

    …smaller communities

    So like it was before the dawn of Reddit and social media?

    Sign me the fuck up. I miss my dumb little websites with a dodgy layout full of terribly cropped gifs.

  • obbeel@lemmy.eco.br
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    17 days ago

    I firmly believe that connecting people to their IRL friends is an important part of the potential of the Internet, as it is shown by Facebook, for example.

    But I also believe there are people looking to connect with new people and finding a community where they can express themselves wholly. I think the current Internet is weak in this regard, weaker than it has been before, but I think it’s possible to build a place where people can connect.

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      17 days ago

      Pretty much. I should be able tobmake friends with any human on earth with an internet connection. That this is still hard is something we need to fix

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      17 days ago

      I have a friends Discord I set up a year before Covid, and for about a year only 3 people used it, mainly to play some games together.

      But when Covid hit, it obviously gained some traction. And now it’s THE place I interact with friends since I’ve long ditched the likes of Facebook.

      I keep going back and forth on whether or not to possibly set up a Mastodon server for friends. The hardest part would be convincing people to use it. But it could just be like our little shared space that could still interact with the wider world. It’d be kinda cool to have a Local feed be just people you know in real life.

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        17 days ago

        A small friend group is best suited for chat programs (discord et al.) But if you want to expand the group a mastodon server is a good idea

  • cley_faye@lemmy.world
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    18 days ago

    Sounds a lot like the past. And, actually, a bit like the current internet. Custom websites, feed syndication, etc. didn’t disappear, they just shrank in the face of behemoth platforms.

    • Liam Mayfair@lemmy.sdf.org
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      18 days ago

      Bring them back! I for one would rather use a forum over a fucking Discord server any day of the week. At least forums are open, searchable and discoverable. Good luck finding the answer to a question you have that some poor sod like you may have also asked in a Discord server months or years ago.

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      18 days ago

      The thing is that many people, myself included assumed most were dead and cannibalised by Reddit and Facebook groups. Turns out those specialised places have been running continuously on their own pace. Yeah, threads can still span hundreds of pages but in the end going through them makes you an expert on things overnight ;)

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      17 days ago

      Yes, but this time deep web forums that are unsearchable/unindexed so that information is lost forever! (Discord, telegram, matrix)actually that might actually be a return to web 1 forums before search engines were giant and all forum seach engines sucked ass 😂

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    17 days ago

    We should be able to bootstrap activityPub to GeoCities websites. WordPress integration is taking a long time.

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      17 days ago

      That’s backwards, activitypub is higher level than websites. And you can literally make a website already and embed an activitypub stream

  • Lettuce eat lettuce@lemmy.ml
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    18 days ago

    Check out Neocities, a great community of indie web fans, built in the spirit of the old GeoCities sites.

    Some really great sites there, it really captures that late 90’s to early 2000’s internet vibes.

  • MyOpinion@lemm.ee
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    19 days ago

    I think by now we have figured out the majority of people are garbage and you only want to spend time with a select group. Discord seems to have this figured out.

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          I don’t think we have. Some people theorise that the tower of babel really happened. Whether you’re religous or not doesn’t really matter but it shows that during the earliest recorded days humanity wanted to help each other and everyone by building a tower. There are theories as to why god didn’t allow the tower to reach them so then the blame is put on god, not humanity.

  • ERROR: Earth.exe has crashed@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    18 days ago

    The future of internet is you have to ask your government for permission before you can visit foreign websites.

    There is no longer “Internet”

    It will be suceeded by:

    • Freedom Net (where “Antifa” is Banned, and you need a swastica armband to get access)

    • Euronet (where UK just left, again)

    • United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (they noped out of the UK, and re-re-joined the EU)

    • Putin’s #1 Digital Fan Club

    • 中华人民解放互联网 (People’s Liberated Internet)

    • And that’s it, Canada and Mexico got Invaded by the US; while UK, EU, Russia, China all fought over the remaining of the world

    (okay maybe my worldbuilding is ridiculous, but the world is collapsing and I want to write a story about my predictions of the future mm’kay? 😉)

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      17 days ago

      Your worldbuilding is in SciFi classics tier, but it’s missing all of the global South.

      Australia is already more locked out, but its Internet can only exist in function of US.

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        18 days ago

        The darknets are here, have been here, but are by definition: dark, so unless you’re in one they’re useless to you.

        First rule of darknet membership: don’t talk about the darknet.

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        17 days ago

        Unless something’s changed in the last few years, the darknet is too difficult for normies to use.

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        17 days ago

        They wouldn’t.

        EU would have to defend Greenland from the USA (and given the already huge amount of US miliary presense, they would probably fail). South America would be a warzone between US and resistance forces funded by EU, but since they also have to fund the defence against Russia, they don’t have the fund to fight two fronts, so they focus more on the EU-Russia front. UK will have to also defend itself from the US military that can launch an attack from Greenland at any moment (good luck, they left the EU lmfao). Russia and China relationship doesn’t do so well and they fight over Mongolia and the “Middle East” (for lack of a better term). Australia joins China as a Special Administrative region because USA gone fascist, and EU is already fighting two fronts, so they eventually got absorbed in China’s sphere of influence. Japan is now a warzone between Vanguardist “Socialist” China, and Fascist USA.


        And Taiwan is… wait what’s a “Taiwan”? Oh that boring island that has totally always been under PLA control and totally never had any de facto autonomy under the name ROC, like ever, that Taiwan? Long live CCP! (/s 😉)

        (Actually, maybe I should write a story about all this… 👀)

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      18 days ago

      Links like that feel like the time I first had access to the Internet. Kinda weird but very very interesting. Thank you.

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    18 days ago

    It is for me, but I have my doubts that the majority will avoid the corporate-owned spaces.

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      18 days ago

      I think it’s always going to be a sort of long-tail phenomenon, with most people involved in the biggest platforms, but a large number of small platforms that attract a minority of the overall population.