We Built This City!
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I miss things spreading by word-of-mouth, not The Algorithm.
I miss people making things for fun, not for the exit strategy.
I miss misinformation being called out and bullied mercilessly, not rewarded for Engagement.
I miss Nazi being hyperbole, not an alternative viewpoint we're supposed to acknowledge as valid.
I remember The Blues Brothers and "I hate Illinois nazis" and John Belushi and Dan Akroyd running the fucking nazis into the fucking river. The sad thing is, that shit was universally funny back then - there weren't people in the theater saying "hey wait a minute, that's not respecting their free speech rights" or worse, "hey, what's so bad about Illinois nazis?" Just straight up "of course they drove the nazis into the fucking river".
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Bring back Geocities!
Come and join my webring on Neocities.
Sign the guest book.
Scream at my aggressive CSS.
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Come and join my webring on Neocities.
Sign the guest book.
Scream at my aggressive CSS.
Scream at my aggressive CSS.
LOL!!! What's the address?
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I miss things spreading by word-of-mouth, not The Algorithm.
I miss people making things for fun, not for the exit strategy.
I miss misinformation being called out and bullied mercilessly, not rewarded for Engagement.
I miss Nazi being hyperbole, not an alternative viewpoint we're supposed to acknowledge as valid.
I miss stumbleupon. I found so much cool stuff and web comics I'm still reading 20 years later.
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Cities start from villages.
That's what we've got here now.
wrote last edited by [email protected]Not all cities start from villages: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Underoccupied_developments_in_China
Although a feature of discourse on the Chinese economy and urbanization in China in the 2010s, many developments that were initially criticized as "ghost cities" in China have since become occupied and are now functioning cities.
Some cities are literally just built into the empty space, then wait until people move in. It has worked multiple times in China. Some cities literally went from zero to a million inhabitants in under 20 years.
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Power lies where men believe it lies
— George Martin
and women
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Oh no did substack do a bad thing?
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I miss the old days of people making niche websites for their hobbies, their own blogs, and message boards.
So many people think of the Internet as Google, Meta, Netflix, or <favorite social network here>. That makes me sad.
I don't see a way back to a less commercialized internet, but little pockets of goodness like Lemmy make me happy.
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Oh no did substack do a bad thing?
Some users were recently sent push notifications to highlight a neo-nazi substack that showed a swastika icon
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Not all cities start from villages: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Underoccupied_developments_in_China
Although a feature of discourse on the Chinese economy and urbanization in China in the 2010s, many developments that were initially criticized as "ghost cities" in China have since become occupied and are now functioning cities.
Some cities are literally just built into the empty space, then wait until people move in. It has worked multiple times in China. Some cities literally went from zero to a million inhabitants in under 20 years.
I actually remember this one. Weren't western articles shitting on China endlessly for this? Calling it "ghost cities" and making up conspiracy theories and all.
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First name choice was "The internet"
Second name choice was "The pornography machine"
They have forgotten our provenance and purpose. There is no pornography sullying out social media. There is social media sullying our pornography.
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Loads of early tech leaders who were all free-love back in the day became strangely capitalist once they realised how ludicrously rich they could get.
san francisco in a nutshell
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Jesus or just use Wordpress. Takes like an hour to set up.
Thanks, but no thanks, sir. I'll code my website myself.
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I actually remember this one. Weren't western articles shitting on China endlessly for this? Calling it "ghost cities" and making up conspiracy theories and all.
You still get lemmitors who think China just has empty cities made of tofu, trains that nobody uses, giant concentration camps full of people whos only crime was desiring freedom, and that china will collapse any day now.
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The land wasn't barren though.
It was inhabited by GOPHERs and TELNETs and FTPs and BBSes.
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The land wasn't barren though.
It was inhabited by GOPHERs and TELNETs and FTPs and BBSes.
And MUDs and MOOs
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and women
wrote last edited by [email protected]Women lies where men believe they lie
