All technology becomes degraded over time. Enshittification is real.
this post was submitted on 20 Jun 2025
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Nah. Just corpos.
"I’ve known Lemmy for a few hours and I feel like I’m back in the early spirit of the internet."
Different system, same issues.
People are people.
It's not 2017-18 social media, friend. It's just late state capitalism.
And the lion's share of it can be traced to increasing real estate and rent prices.
YUP! This is exactly why I'm so passionate about it. Awfulness still happens, but it feels organic like the original days of the web.
The Internet started going downhill around 2010, this is nothing new
Some of my best memories online are in golden era Tumblr, which was a pretty big social media. So I don't think social media, per se, is the issue.
The feeling you're talking about pretty much always happens when you find a small community. Like when you move to a small town and life just somehow feels more personal. Those are still around, they just aren't well known (but they never really were). I mean it's like there are a lot of very large cities today but small towns are still there too.
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