• neidu3
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    6 hours ago

    They ruined each other. I preferred both when they didn’t affect each other - Your neighbor didn’t get her news and science lessons from a crackpot blog, and your favorite online community wasn’t based on identity politics. The only identity that mattered was your username.

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      1 hour ago

      Yeah I mean, people have complicated so many things.

      Back in the early days of the internet, you were a laughingstock for being infamous on the internet. Like, you weren’t supposed to and it was frowned upon. Now look where that’s gotten.

    • HubertManne@moist.catsweat.com
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      3 hours ago

      amen. people joked about the real world and even the simspons about opinions of people who mattered but I never realized it was that seperation that was nice.