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What do you miss from the old internet? (lemmy.world)

submitted 9 months ago by _number8_@lemmy.world to c/asklemmy@lemmy.world

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i think we need Cracked-style articles back. desperately. or like, a guy doing a weird thing and writing a piece on it. sites like those are declining faster than the glaciers.

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[-] sentient_loom@sh.itjust.works 37 points 9 months ago

People having their own sites. I'm sick of everything happening on platforms (yes including this one). I want to visit someone's place, not meet at the bar.

[-] Sickify@lemmy.ca 13 points 9 months ago

I'm dealing with this with my 10 year old daughter, all her friends have social media, Facebook Messenger etc.

I found delta chat, which uses IMAP email, but presents it in a chat format, she just needed her friends email accounts, easy. And it killed the desire for messenger.

We also recently setup her own website with a forum, so she and her friends can write stories, share images etc. We haven't got to her actually building her own homepage yet, but it's coming.

She hasn't experienced mass social media yet, so having her own (sub)domain with a forum, her email@domain, etc is exciting for her and is letting her express herself on a platform that me and her can both fully control.

[-] sentient_loom@sh.itjust.works 3 points 9 months ago

oh that's excellent, 10/10

[-] the_rogue@sh.itjust.works 2 points 9 months ago

Technically lemmy is like people or groups having their own platform which can communicate with each other.

[-] shinigamiookamiryuu@lemm.ee -1 points 9 months ago

SAME

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