Maybe I’m just older and have been on the internet longer, but it doesn’t feel as much like the “early days” as it does feel like when I first came to Reddit after Digg died (without ever having been a Digg user; it just was a coincidence that I discovered Reddit because of the hubbub).
I’ve been online since 1990 tho. I was literally there for the beginning of the “World Wide Web.” The true Wild West of the internet.
Yeah, more like that early Wild West pioneering feeling of the early days of the internet, this feels more like a bunch of tourists moving from their previous fully equipped hotel because of a shitty management to some new hotel which is still partly under construction and everyone, including the management, are still trying to figure out where everything belongs.
Back before music piracy was a thing; because who’s going to download a 3-4MB file on a 14k4 modem? By the time you grab one song you’d have racked up such an internet bill you might as well have bought the single.
I remember spending all day downloading files from a Quake server because I happened upon a server running Team Fortress and had to download the mod. On a 28.8k dial-up modem. It was like 500MB or something.
Then of course when I get into the game, it’s on ctf_crosstheborder and was the most confusing thing I had ever encountered.
The days of overclocking your CPU so that your pr0n would load faster TT__TT and we used emojis like that. Those were dark days, but people learned a lot about CPU cooling.
Which honestly became not true pretty much right away - any post about anything remotely controversial or political has just as much toxicity as reddit did imo
I feel like this is a major oversight to how lemmy works. I feel like instances should be able to maintain overall federation, but ‘disable’ another instance by default, so that it’s virtually invisible unless a user turns it on themselves. NSFW tag is way too broad, it encompasses so much more than porn
The concern is often not preventing their users from seeing the content but preventing their servers from “hosting” to the content for liability reasons.
If you’re using an app, instances like pornlemmy.com wont work. They say it’s because theyve made so many changes to the layout. I use Connect for Lemmy, and have been able to circumvent this by making an account on pornlemmy.com and logging in via my app, now I have all my needs satisfied. (Also kind of convenient as now it stays separated from my main feed)
No, it’s true. Ask the devs or anyone at lemmygrad.ml, this is the reason why .ml was picked as a TLD. They don’t hide that they’re communists, look at their avatars on GH.
Not sure why you would favor political reasoning for site that’s not even sorta politically based over economic reasoning (despite it being a free service) but that’s alright you’re allowed to have your own opinions
The devs are communists by political orientation and .ml is selected for a specific reason, not cuz it’s cheap or free. lemmygrad.ml is also their instance, but lemmy.ml was made to accomodate to a crowd that may not share their political views.
You know, if that’s truly the only reason and it turns out I’m wrong I’ll gladly eat that L, and it would be a relief. I’ve just heard some iffy things specifically about it all.
EDIT: it’s stuff like this that I’m talking about.
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lol although enshittification doesn’t really apply to Lemmy, so it isn’t meta
I believe they are taking about the meta discussions, where I have seen this term frequently.
Of course, it is used in the context of Lemmy’s peers and not Lemmy itself.
Maybe I’m just older and have been on the internet longer, but it doesn’t feel as much like the “early days” as it does feel like when I first came to Reddit after Digg died (without ever having been a Digg user; it just was a coincidence that I discovered Reddit because of the hubbub).
I’ve been online since 1990 tho. I was literally there for the beginning of the “World Wide Web.” The true Wild West of the internet.
Yeah, more like that early Wild West pioneering feeling of the early days of the internet, this feels more like a bunch of tourists moving from their previous fully equipped hotel because of a shitty management to some new hotel which is still partly under construction and everyone, including the management, are still trying to figure out where everything belongs.
Back before music piracy was a thing; because who’s going to download a 3-4MB file on a 14k4 modem? By the time you grab one song you’d have racked up such an internet bill you might as well have bought the single.
I remember spending all day downloading files from a Quake server because I happened upon a server running Team Fortress and had to download the mod. On a 28.8k dial-up modem. It was like 500MB or something.
Then of course when I get into the game, it’s on ctf_crosstheborder and was the most confusing thing I had ever encountered.
The days of overclocking your CPU so that your pr0n would load faster TT__TT and we used emojis like that. Those were dark days, but people learned a lot about CPU cooling.
Like how a room cooling fan with the legs removed and leaned on the case with the side panel removed can really help… A LOT!
Do you even telnet?
Gopher 🥳
Kermit?
Right? I am having trouble seeing similarities.
Correction: “Please tell me we are going to”
Second correction: “I speak on behalf of everyone here when I say we absolutely must, please have it done by tomorrow morning thanks.”
Third correction: “If you don’t we’ll hack your ass!”
3AM CET, Monday…
I think we should federate with Heinz and their beans
Wait? We haven’t already?
This is amazing
Ugh must we? I’d rather federate with Bush’s beans…
“Everyone here is so much nicer than on <insert massively popular mainstream platform here>”
Doing my best to change that :)
Obligatory “username checks out”! You’re welcome.
Have you met Biggus_Dickus yet?
What’s so funny about Biggus_Dickus?
He’s married to Incontinentia_Buttocks.
Ive got a vewwy good frend in wome called Biggus_Dickus.
Me too :)
Fucker
Which honestly became not true pretty much right away - any post about anything remotely controversial or political has just as much toxicity as reddit did imo
Yeah, it’s almost as if it’s people who were the problem all along 😀
I admit I haven’t figured out where all the porn is hiding.
lemmynsfw.com and pornlemmy.com. someone also pointed out booty.world, but it’s currently not working.
lemmynsfw.com, your instance may have defederated with it. Supposedly many are because they don’t want it on their server.
I feel like this is a major oversight to how lemmy works. I feel like instances should be able to maintain overall federation, but ‘disable’ another instance by default, so that it’s virtually invisible unless a user turns it on themselves. NSFW tag is way too broad, it encompasses so much more than porn
The concern is often not preventing their users from seeing the content but preventing their servers from “hosting” to the content for liability reasons.
I asked. They claim they did not and I verified that the show NSFW box is unchecked.
If you’re using an app, instances like pornlemmy.com wont work. They say it’s because theyve made so many changes to the layout. I use Connect for Lemmy, and have been able to circumvent this by making an account on pornlemmy.com and logging in via my app, now I have all my needs satisfied. (Also kind of convenient as now it stays separated from my main feed)
waiting for some legend to respond…
There you go: https://lemmynsfw.com/
…I swear I only know it for hearsay!
And here i am just posting stolen memes and pictures of life like a sucker
Two wolves
Margot Robbie?
Academy Award nominated character actress @[email protected]!
The only real celebrity on Lemmy.
(Sometimes I get mistaken for you.)
Like what, she really on Lemmy?
It ain’t much, but it’s honest work.
Yeah, right 😂, like it’s really you 😂.
The new one is are we defererating from Threads.
Not in ML of course, but the discussion goes on on other instances.
What does the
mlstand for in lemmy.ml? I don’t think the instance is based out of Mali…huh… i thought it stood for mainline cus its thr instance the main devs run
Marxism-Leninism
Source? Or just a haha funny?
No, it’s true. Ask the devs or anyone at lemmygrad.ml, this is the reason why .ml was picked as a TLD. They don’t hide that they’re communists, look at their avatars on GH.
ML domains are also free, for the record - but that makes sense. Thanks again for clarifyin
My brain jumped to “machine learning” initially. I never considered the alternative until explicitly pointed out.
Mali, one of the cheaper TLDs
Also know for having one of the highest malware count for a TLD. I migrated from it a few years ago because of that.
I would assume it is because you can get free (though super bare bones) .ml TLD, though you do have to pay a little if you want some TLD comforts.
Yeah, that’s the exact situation. I personally chose to pay $5-10 per year and use a less sketchy domain for my stuff.
How familiar are you with TLDs?
Yes, I’m aware. My point is why did they pick .ml, specifically?
It stans for Marxist-Leninist.
Just wanted to make sure we were on the same page!
br, .co.in, and ml tlds must be pretty cheap for people because I see them all the time on threat feeds. ML is indeed the Malaysia tld
Edit: Mali not Malaysia lmao. I also looked it up, turns out the company that owned the tld gives em out for free
A quick Google gave me Mali, which is why I said as such.
But frankly I do not believe it is about being cheap, I do indeed think it’s as the other comment said - Marxist-Leninist.
Not sure why you would favor political reasoning for site that’s not even sorta politically based over economic reasoning (despite it being a free service) but that’s alright you’re allowed to have your own opinions
The devs are communists by political orientation and .ml is selected for a specific reason, not cuz it’s cheap or free. lemmygrad.ml is also their instance, but lemmy.ml was made to accomodate to a crowd that may not share their political views.
Excellent explanation, I wasn’t aware of lemmygrad, thank you for the clarification
You sure are smart if you know it better than the developers THEMSELVES who said they picked .ml for no particular reason.
It’s stuff like this that makes me think so.
I’m not going to click a random link you sent me, esp. considering what’s been going on.
Good try tho lmao
It’s one of the few free TLDs.
You know, if that’s truly the only reason and it turns out I’m wrong I’ll gladly eat that L, and it would be a relief. I’ve just heard some iffy things specifically about it all.
EDIT: it’s stuff like this that I’m talking about.
Funny, my first post was “The beauty of the Fediverse”
Dude my card was full on my first day of Lemmy lol.
You forgot “Embrace, Extend, Extinguish” Literally every thread about Meta or reddit.
Embrace, Extend, Extinguish, Enshittify
And yet people still want to federate with meta for some reason
Most people are young here, they haven’t lived long enough to see how evil corps can be.
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‘Use a smaller instance, cause .world is overloaded!’
Also .ml , .ee and .one
Did you really… forget the beans already??
Beans? I was here for strategies on how not to poop for three days
And not pooping
damn that was annoying for a few days
You’re in memes. What did you expect?
last week beans shitpost was the only thing showing up on c/all
That’s not meta, that’s just a meme
That was last week, beans are dead old man, get over it already.
Ok, I must ask, what are beans?
Legumes
hey don’t act like its a bad thing, i was getting tired of my home page being beans and only beans
Yeah me as well, it went on for way too long IMO. It was funny the first day or so, but afterwards… not so much.