the iphone was the beginning of the end. i remember getting an ipod touch around that time and simply having fun on it, downloading silly little games and apps, in pure awe that i could light a little fake lighter or pretend to chug a beer on the school bus. now you need a smartphone to participate in society
I don't know how many lemon parties you've seen, but I promise you that at some point of the roughly three hundred thousand years of human history some of your ancestors were gangbanging in the Village Elder Fuck Tent
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like the big bang theory you know, now everyone just drifts away into their own little galaxies. like i did a similar web search on lemmy.world and found a lot of overlapse between lemmy and other reddit alternatives. so that's a niche. lgbt is another niche i'm sure. you get all these niches and the internet is more separated than before.