• Photuris@lemmy.ml
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      2 months ago

      If only we can somehow figure out how to bring back something like the web of the ’90s

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        Federation, mostly. Places like Lemmy and Mastodon aren’t obsessed with optimizing ad spend, so there’s a lot less incentive to enshittify.

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        YouTubers are doing webrings again, I shit you not. I love it.

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          Unfortunately no one else is interacting with it either. I miss the old style forums, and most of the ones I used to frequent are still online. But they all haven’t had any real activity in years, so they aren’t really usable anymore unfortunately.