Comment on Is the amount of Lemmy activity declining?

• AFKBRBChocolate@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Fewer things are sadder than the reality of the Internet compared to what we envisioned early on.

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  • BeefandSquints@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    It’s perhaps the greatest tragedy of my lifetime, I’m truly not exaggerating. We went from the free sharing of the majority of human knowledge to forcing people to sell their souls for YouTube money.

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    • AFKBRBChocolate@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      I feel the same way. I was a CS major in the early 80s. I watched the internet become something amazing, and then I watched it rot. Heartbreaking.

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