• IHeartBadCode@fedia.io
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    6 days ago

    Exactly this. Shit I remember when the alt.* tree was added to USENET. The amount of the cabal talk and how the argument actually was: “No, nobody wants to pay to host your racist rants”. And some of the worst stuff I see on Reddit today is light-years better than what the Internet was in plain sight back in the day before cracking down on things actually came around.

    I’m glad person in the imaged post was happy with the Internet back then, but it was far from “human and genuine”. This is absolutely some rose tinted nostalgia. What they miss is small niche communities and this kind of talk is exactly how “get off my lawn” elderly people get started.

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      it was far from “human and genuine”.

      Are racist rants and worse not “human and genuine?”

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        A lot of it wasn’t genuine.

        Most of it was written by three kids in a trench coat pretending to be Chuck Norris.