As soon as people could read, ages ago when they had fuck all to do they sat down and wrote (books, letters) for fun. Now, when people have fuck all to do they write internets for fun. NO CHANGE!

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• JohnnyEnzyme@piefed.social ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  …when they had fuck all to do they sat down and wrote (books, letters) for fun.

  Just for the record, before the invention of radio, TV and the mass production of goods, they also had a variety of real-world crafts they could do and things they could make for fun & profit.

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  • phonics@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Before the mechanical loom. The whole world was basically creating thread and weaving full time. It would take just as long to hand make a sail for a viking ship as it would to make the whole rest of the ship.

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    • JohnnyEnzyme@piefed.social ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      The whole world was basically creating thread and weaving full time.

      That’s an underrated point, and (seems to me) severally under-emphasized in various historical fiction and such. Also could be kind of minimized / hand-waved away by many because it was (I’m guessing) seen as ‘poor persons and womens’ work,’ with the rights of both of such groups commonly dismissed across history, going back ages…

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  • HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    that also has disappeared?

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    • JohnnyEnzyme@piefed.social ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I’d say that’s on a case-by-case basis. Hobbyists still weave on looms, even though there’s not strict need. People still build radio sets from scratch, and yadda-yadda…

      One of the things that always interested me about living in a commune is that there’d be a need to do stuff like this to some extent, on an ongoing basis.

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• HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  yeah sorry for the wording i was running into character limits

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  • freeman@feddit.org ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    there is a textbox as well, besides the title

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    • HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Rule 2. The entire showerthought must be in the title

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