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on the shitpost meter you score 20%
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.
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 😢
private equity firm but for memes
I remember when there really weren’t images because those were too slow to load.
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.
I remember when we started getting images
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?
Yeah. It used to all just come from ebaums world and Ian’s shoelace site.
Sounds like someone wants to go back to a website
I’m not happy that I’m flying.
Where you can log on, log on, log on
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
I turned YouTube history off and just watch videos through “my subscriptions”
For me it’s a game changer
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
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 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.
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 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.
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.
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.
I don’t think that was at all the point the friend was making
There are now 6 websites.
Beat me to it!!! 😁
I knew we were in trouble when Stumbleupon went down.
It’s back
I like Cloudhiker
We need to bring that back. How did they even make money?
I think the lack of money making was why it went down
That would be an amazing open source project. Nowadays, it probably wouldn’t even be that hard to make the entire thing.
https://www.boredbutton.com/ is the closest I’ve found. Not open source unfortunately.
What data does it even collect?
Very similar vibes, thanks for finding that.
you missed an opportunity to screenshot this from Reddit and post it here
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.
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
