• FridaySteve@lemmy.world
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    12 hours ago

    People are so lucky for all the great knowledge that was lost when altavista bought dejanews and Google bought altavista. I saw stuff on early 90s usenet that was way way way worse than anything you can see on the modern internet.

      • AnarchoEngineer@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        5 hours ago

        When you have a medium of free expression full of weird people who don’t give a shit what the others think, you get the full spectrum of genius from the most horribly grotesque to the most inspiring beauty.

        But when you start filling that space with people who think they should conform to what everyone else thinks, and worse, think that everyone else should conform to some behavior, you lose both ends of the spectrum and are left with relatively homogeneous monotony.