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To many of the users that claim Lemmy is like the early internet, I often see the year 2010 thrown around. Like, are you serious kid? I've been on the internet literally since 1991. I've seen some shit. Shit you wouldn't believe.
I've seen things... seen things you little people wouldn't believe. Sharing software off the shoulders of radio waves, bright as the EM spectrum... I rode on the back decks of BBS with a bell 103 and watched 300 bps content glitter in the dark near my Tannhäuser monitor. All those moments... they'll be gone.
Attack posts on fire off the shoulder of 4chan.
Goatse ... many goats
Rick rolling is the kinder gentler Disney version of the early internet.
It was a time that had little regard for your feelings... not because people didn't care, but because shadowbanning wasn't even a thing yet.
Maybe they mean early social media. That term is somewhat misused, though… social media didn’t start with Facebook or Twitter, it began with Usenet and then forums. And yeah, it wasn’t halcyon days back then. We had the same abusive behavior like trolling, alts, bullying, spam, egos and arguing.
I don't think Lemmy is like 2010 reddit culturally but more like traditional forums though, since on most instances, the regulars all kinda know each other and their admins as well as their personalities, whereas you rarely recongnize any username on reddit unless they are one of these novelty accounts like Vargas or shitty_watercolour or poem (there are exceptions like Unidan or Wil Wheaton but they are rare) and everyone just kinda blends into a blob there.