what the fuck is that Nazi-ass shit dude

It really pisses me off that this is the onion.

But why would other countries want it?

I didn't see where this was posted and only questioned it after the joke about enrichment D=

Wow, what a rabbit hole. This person has a website selling tape, but with massive subsections detailing their abusive childhood, struggles with alcoholism, and then page after page of highly personal info, genealogy, conspiracy, freemasonry... you name it. This is like time cube all over again. I hate to say it but it looks like they are struggling with psychosis or something.

But why would other countries want it?

That is what the old internet was like. Full of exactly that.

I love it, heh.

Seconded. I miss that internet. This is stuff you’d stumble upon and marvel at. Now there are entire subreddits full of it.

Now there are entire subreddits full of it.

It's not the same.

Old internet was conspiratorial and fascinating, like being in an alien a zoo. People were nuts; I'd want to have an IRL beer with them but not tell them where I live. Imageboards and such like that still exist, of course, but its mostly out of sight I guess.

I just flipped through an imageboard pursuing something else and got a taste of that. Like, 5GB zips full of crazy documents and rants, a literal Hitler worshipping /pol mod, but you can see the nuggets of truth they're orbiting around.

Reddit and especially Twitter isn't the same. It's feels like all the users are manipulated into groupthink and (I refuse to have this term robbed from me) virtue signaling, especially when not anonymous. There's nothing interesting if you dig; just some poor sap parroting professional influencers in their engagement algorithm bubble, nothing about whatever life crises sucked them in, nor the sheer manpower they put into building their little internet frontpage.

And to be blunt, Lemmy is nice, but also feels this way sometimes.

Now there are entire subreddits full of it.

It's not the same.

Old internet was conspiratorial and fascinating, like being in an alien a zoo. People were nuts; I'd want to have an IRL beer with them but not tell them where I live. Imageboards and such like that still exist, of course, but its mostly out of sight I guess.

I just flipped through an imageboard pursuing something else and got a taste of that. Like, 5GB zips full of crazy documents and rants, a literal Hitler worshipping /pol mod, but you can see the nuggets of truth they're orbiting around.

Reddit and especially Twitter isn't the same. It's feels like all the users are manipulated into groupthink and (I refuse to have this term robbed from me) virtue signaling, especially when not anonymous. There's nothing interesting if you dig; just some poor sap parroting professional influencers in their engagement algorithm bubble, nothing about whatever life crises sucked them in, nor the sheer manpower they put into building their little internet frontpage.

And to be blunt, Lemmy is nice, but also feels this way sometimes.

Honestly same. I can't tell any more. The first one that got me was the Gulf of America thing, thought that was a joke until I saw it on google maps

Don't worry, ai is bringing it all back

I don’t disagree with anything you say, I just didn’t fill in all the blanks.