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The early internet was so human and genuine. (lemmy.world)
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[–] 155 points 1 year ago (5 children)

It was capitalism. Proves that they would sell to you the rope to hang them.

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  • [–] 65 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Capitalism ruins everything, just look at America

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  • [–] 16 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Britain ruined North America (ask the many natives of colonial times) before America could ruin the rest of the continent, then itself

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    I'm not sure I'd pin the ruining of north America on the Brits. They got that ball rolling.

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  • [–] 12 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    While the big three empirical powers that colonized the Americas are all at fault, they are late comers compared to the Spanish. By the time the British started their first colony Desoto had ripped through appalachia, on a quest for gold, and had murdered, raped, and enslaved many natives. More importantly though, he introduced most of the tribes to old world diseases, which was apocalyptic to them.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago* (1 child)

    True, that ball was already rolling when the Brits kicked it, but my point is that it didn't stop being kicked afterwards either. Or to this day, really.

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  • [–] 22 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    They would sell you the rope to hang yourself ... and market you the idea that it would be a good and popular thing to hang yourself with their Deluxe Hangman 3000 Super rope made from naturally sourced hemp.

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  • [–] -5 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Listen, I hate capitalism as much as the next guy, but that’s not the case. Normies ruined the internet, then capitalists latched onto the normies.

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  • [–] 56 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    The normies are fine, the problem is that capitalists consolidated everything into 4 websites and then started pushing the unprofitable weirdos like us off those sites.

    It's not a big deal, we've made niches for ourselves and will continue to do so because we can't rely on corporate services not to enshittify.

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  • [–] 43 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    It’s not a big deal

    It's absolutely a big deal. Normies getting propagandized by capitalists are how we got fascism, and no amount of "making niches for ourselves" will save us from that.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago

    Plus the corporate web constantly kills off our niche spaces in the effort to make them palatable for advertisers by sanitizing minorities out of their own spaces.

    I used to be super active in r/traaaa before the 3rd party plugin exodus and subsequent shutdown of the forum. Now? Those people either made a new Reddit or scattered to the 4 winds, and a similar space has struggled to take off here on Lemmy. And that's just one of many instances of this sort of thing happening.

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  • [–] 10 points 1 year ago

    Both are rights, but the normies definitely destroyed the internet culture. They invaded forums without any regard for the rules set before (remember "RTFM"?), and when capitalism arrived, they all moved to commercial sites.

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  • [–] 19 points 1 year ago

    Normies ruined the internet

    I'm sorry, I can't hear you over the Cyptocurrency freaks, the click bait video game ads, and the endless AI generated slop.

    What was this about my dear sweet mother, who can barely check her email anymore because of all this crap, ruining the Internet?

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  • [+] -8 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Stop blaming capitalism - people are the problem, not the systems they create.

    The average person is a fucking retard and that's not changing - when they reach a space, it goes to shit.

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  • [+] 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 child)
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  • [–] 0 points 1 year ago

    I think a problem is that different people have different meanings attached to the word capitalism

    when some people hear it they think of trillionares exploiting homeless people, but when I hear it I think of private property and markets and competition

    Im chill with the 2ed meaning, as long as it doesnt get out of control (like nowadays)

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