America is dead, play it off Keyboard Cat.
"Play me off, Johnny!"
issue is it will collapse into neofeudalism, where the Czar Executive Officier of your network city will demand you work 16 hours every day, or he will send you to the wellness farms working 18 hours a day.
I miss when tech entrepreneurs just wanted to get rich and retire young instead of becoming real life James Bond villains. Tom Anderson got a generation to learn HTML, got Rupert Murdoch to hand over $580mil for a social network that'd be dead within a few years, then had the decency to peace out and travel the world enjoying his photography hobby. No evil schemes. No fascism. Just pretty pictures.
This is another reason why income and wealth inequality are bad for us. We have a natural level of psychopathy in the population. Some are bound to stumble into the kind of power given by obscene inequality.
The joys of learning HTML to impress your high school crush with autoplay music on your MySpace profile...
It's borderline difficult to live day to day knowing what's going on at every moment.
You know how millennials and Gen z can't even image working one job that's minimum wage to buy a house and support a family.
Soon the generations after us won't be able to image a fun internet that's not filled with ads and controlled by 5 companies.
You can still watch cat videos, they're just sandwiched in between hell and sadness to keep you scrolling.
With hundreds of flashing ads along the side-bar.
cat, im a kitty cat, and dance dance dance and dance dance dance
I really miss that era of the internet.. Myspace was fun and everybody's, typically awful, profile had so much character. Felt like you really got to know the people you hung out with on there. I'll never forgive my shitty friend for convincing me to switch to Facebook lol
MySpace was such a “special” thing. So stupid. But so fun, and dumb. (Or go even further back to geocities, or some yahoo shit.)
It was niche. Then people try to capture that, to mainstream it. Which in a weird way could be justified. But then you end up with Facebook. And then the same thing with Reddit a decade later.
Nice things. Can’t have.
Long before anyone had a PCs or servers beefy enough for internet video, we still had tiny gifs. And before that, we all just had our own websites all over the web which you could make entirely your own, for free or for cheap. And it was awesome.
<blink>tags everywhere!I still have the html files for my first geocities site. It was a Commander Keen fansite with info that was already on every other fansite. But it was mine! And I used marquee tags and background midi files and gifs whenever I wanted to, and WordArt for the page headings.
Even then I was late to the party. My the time I joined, geocities was part of Yahoo. I remember when the URLs used to be cities and neighbourhoods.
Also, Onchat.com.
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‼️ OMG, I just remembered. SpaceHey.
I lost the music I made in college to the MySpace database loss/crash/whatever.
Upside: the music I made in college is forever lost.
Filtering Youtube by 12+ years ago is a wild ride.
For those curious, just add "before:2010" (replace 2010 with whatever year you want) to your search query.
The good old days of: "cat, i'm a kitty cat and i dance dance dance and i dance dance dance"
I left reddit for lemmy and now lemmy is just the same people complaining about the same stuff. What happened to cat pics, pirates, and robots?
I think it's kinda hard to find spaces where people are gonna be willfully ignorant of the issues currently plaguing our lives. Sure, everyone wants a break from it and not think about it the latest infringement on our rights but outrage fatigue is something we need to be aware of.
I opened Lemmy after like a year and this post made me smile. I don't see this as 'complaining' considering I just arrived from the cesspool that's reddit.
I can hear the music just by seeing the picture.
Same.
Such a good jam.
To be fair, it's probably not the same, but there is Spacehey. It is described as a modern Myspace. Haven't logged in to mine for a while since I still haven't learned how to make a profile theme thing, but it's pretty fun (coming from someone who was never there for the Myspace revolution).
The internet was actually for porn
If MySpace hadn't gone away, it would just be like Facebook is now anyway.
It would be worse. The site got bought out by News Corp (FOX's parent company) in 2005.
The site would be some kind of TurningPointUSA / DailyWire right-wing trash factory. Every song on there would be Ben Shapiro rapping or Oliver Anthony releasing the "Rich Men North of Richmond" techno remix.
No shot that’s actually the name of their parent company, it’s way too dystopian movie coated.
I remember making a myspace page because a girl I had a crush on had one.
Rippers Keyboard Cat
Tom said he was my friend, but did he offer to help when I was moving to a new apartment?
80s and 90s internet was peak. It all went downhill after that.
There really wasn't much online in the 80s, other than a lot of archives. After the invention of HTML and subsequently, the World Wide Web it became a lot more user-friendly and also got filled with a lot of garbage. After 2010 or so is when enshitiffication went into overdrive.
Yeah I was about 10 in 1990 so I got the tail end but the 80s also had a lot of scientific stuff which is why it's better than now
In my wildest dreams as well, I wouldn't have imagined the shit storm that is going on... and that too is amplified by internet which was supposed to be a good thing...
Check out spacehey https://spacehey.com/
It's not capitalism that is collapsing
Liberalism is a capitalist ideology.
The criticism is that late stage capitalism corrupts itself and becomes fascism/technocracy/feudalism/whatever as the powers of corporation and state merge.
That or everyone dies from ecological collapse.
Of course, the idea that it's not capitalism when the state does it is a core capitalist conceit. A lot of socialists are trying to have their cake and eat it too on the definitions.
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