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hey Impulse. Welcome.
I grew up during the old internet era. Fun times.
Life was simple.
People didn't curate their lives and fight on the internet.
Sometimes, I wish we could go back to the pre-Internet days.
~tatterdemalion wrote (thread):
People didn't curate their lives, maybe, but I relished an old-school Usenet flamewar.
There's no doubt the internet has developed into something powerful, it gives us access to thousands of helpful services and sites for work and entertainment, but it's a double-edged sword. Privacy has kinda become a thing of the past, cross-site tracking and CPU-hungry scripts are everywhere. I like the new Gemini protocol, it's just like the old internet, and it's been made specifically to stay that way. User-focused blogs and services reign here and I think that's honestly really cool. It's how I found the pub.