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For me, it was that the Internet never forgets and that you should never enter your real name. In my opinion, both of these rules are now completely ignored.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

Bottom-posting eMails and Usenet posts.

Fuck you, Microsoft. Bottom-posting replies is the correct way to reply.

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 2 hours ago

Is bottom-posting some kind of kink I'm not aware of?

[โ€“] [email protected] 14 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

The same people who warned us about the dangers of the internet and not to believe everything, are now the ones readily falling for and spreading conspiracies and lies from social media.

It's tragic.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 hour ago

I suspect now it was never about "don't believe everything", it's just been "believe what I believe". Which I suppose follows Nietzsche's thought on the transition from religion to ideology.

[โ€“] [email protected] 8 points 4 hours ago

Read -> Comprehend -> Post

[โ€“] [email protected] 15 points 12 hours ago

Don't meet people from online.

[โ€“] [email protected] 45 points 20 hours ago

Don't share your personal information online.

Yeah that's definitely not being followed anymore.

[โ€“] [email protected] 48 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Don't give your credit card details over the internet.

Nowadays people have them saved in their damn browser for convenience.

[โ€“] [email protected] 8 points 20 hours ago (3 children)

Credit card usually isn't so bad. It's usually pretty easy to dispute charges etc, debit card on the other hand...no way that's getting saved

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[โ€“] [email protected] 52 points 1 day ago (3 children)

"Don't believe everything you read on the internet." -Abraham Lincoln

Social media, a gorilla getting shot, two US elections, and GenAI later, we have completely fallen off this one simple rule.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 11 points 20 hours ago (2 children)

A/S/L should be replied when you join a chat room

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 11 hours ago
[โ€“] [email protected] 13 points 19 hours ago

69/yes/flavourtown

[โ€“] [email protected] 15 points 21 hours ago (4 children)

the Internet never forgets

this one goes both ways, if someone is doxing you, it'll be online FOUR FUCKING EVER, but if it was a cool website/funny meme/ good software, it's probably on somebody's downloads folder, but it can easily disappear and you'll never see it again.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 7 hours ago (1 children)
[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 3 hours ago

no, 4 is the exact number of evers.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 37 points 1 day ago (4 children)

Basic forum etiquette. It's horrifying at work seeing teams "teams" (forums) used like chats, all the cross-posting and thread necromancy, people completely unable to keep topics confined to the appropriate sub-forum, etc

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