I read that as “you can’t put the Furries back in the box” and it still worked
Comment on Google is no longer asking — feed the AI or you’re not in search results
Jiggle_Physics@lemmy.world 4 weeks agoThis will never happen. We might get some of the issues more regulated, and people may move away from others, but you can’t put the Furies back into the box. Things will change, but we will never have the early internet again.
Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
endofline@lemmy.ca 4 weeks ago
We can, closed communities with some effort to enter the group. I pretty much ditched most main stream social media and use what it used to be mailing lists and discord servers. It’s not about technology. Internet and access used to be simply exclusive and we have to create exclusive channels to communicate about f.e. arts, history, technology or even occult where there is no “free riders” with no knowledge. That’s what I mean and this may happen imo. Quality over quantity
Allero@lemmy.today 4 weeks ago
Lemmy was at some point this pre-September place. Since then, it changed quite a bit.
I think we’ll always have to face either Eternal September or walls and restrictions everywhere, making it hard to join and discouraging many genuinely good folks.
Our best best is to influence the Internet culture at large, since there’s no grand influx of people on the Internet overall anymore. Of course, we go against algorithmic rage machines, but this is a fight worth having. And which place if not Fediverse is a good place to start.