• TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    I miss the internet being a wild west.

    It certainly had its downsides, but it felt a lot better than the nonsense that’s been happening over the past decade+.

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      3 hours ago

      I remember being on GeoCities or Lycos and just incrementing the site number to see different sites.

      Star Trek, Star Wars, Lego, PORN!

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      12 hours ago

      It’s the same as fighting against “fake news” which just creates a false trust that everything on the internet is truth. Which is the opposite of what one should believe.

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      2 days ago

      So then we need build new network with idea that it would be controlled by corps and gov so we need return back to darknet type of network and meshes