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Inspired by the enshittification thread and considering most of the net is now either outright evil like social media or poo poo beyond belief I was wondering what is still good about the modern internet? What aspects should be preserved in the rethink of the modern internet that is long overdue? So to start I reckon podcasts are a cool idea and not entirely poo poo yet Steam is pretty good in that they keep my vidya safe from the 2nd hand shops And the fact that Spotify has every tune at a click of a button would be cool if they hadn’t gutted the music industry to do it What do you think the modern net does at least somewhat right?
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Aug 9, 2023 11:47
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Aug 9, 2023 11:53
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Similar thread a while back I said bandcamp is ok and then somebody told me epic bought it so enjoy it while it lasts
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Aug 9, 2023 12:21
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Wikipedia is pretty good.
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Aug 9, 2023 12:23
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Deep Glove Bruno posted:Similar thread a while back I said bandcamp is ok and then somebody told me epic bought it so enjoy it while it lasts They bought it awhile back at this rate and from my understanding they're still doing band camp Fridays so who knows.
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Aug 9, 2023 12:29
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Deep Glove Bruno posted:Similar thread a while back I said bandcamp is ok and then somebody told me epic bought it so enjoy it while it lasts Of course they loving did. Gross. I like the format of forums like SA. Everything is in chronological order, there's no way to like a post or anything like stupid badges. You can actually carry on a conversation, essentially. It's like a big group discussion, but it doesn't take my full attention like a discord server, etc. There is also no way to verify anyone is who they say they are, but gently caress it, that's actually appealing. I don't want to be [actual name here] on the internet, I want to be some chucklefuck with a meme name. Honestly, a lot of kind of meaningful moments of kindness in my life have happened with people I only know by the kind of name you find on SA or the weird parts of Twitter.
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Aug 9, 2023 12:34
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ChatGPT, archive.org, github, piratebay.
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Aug 9, 2023 12:35
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Bandcamp still works as it always has. Archive.org Librivox Wikipedia Discogs NTS radio is good. Theres a lot of good streaming radio I wouldn't be able to access without the web, actually. Podcasts, and I guess Patreon Still lots of blogs and personal websites out there. Its pretty easy to just not use the parts of the web you don't enjoy.
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Aug 9, 2023 12:44
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Shout out to goon community watch party site https://goontu.be/ as a part of the still good internet 
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Aug 9, 2023 12:53
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Internet Old One posted:ChatGPT, archive.org, github, piratebay. chatGPT is absolutely an enshittifier, i'm saving amazon
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Aug 9, 2023 14:12
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All the pictures of pretty girls.
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Aug 9, 2023 14:13
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William Bear posted:All the pictures of pretty girls. Except one. You know the one I'm talking about.
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Aug 9, 2023 14:13
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Pig balls
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Aug 9, 2023 14:29
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All Too Much For Me posted:chatGPT is absolutely an enshittifier, i'm saving amazon Amazon is a primary cultural driver of enshittification.
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Aug 9, 2023 14:35
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Other than this? Just send me back to '05 or so.
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Aug 9, 2023 14:35
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Wee posted:Librivox I appreciate what they are trying to do, it is a truly noble and altruistic cause. But geez, you sure do get that you pay for with some of those narrators. To add: Project Gutenberg
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Aug 9, 2023 14:39
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Honestly? AI concept art generators like Artflow. If your hobby is being a forever GM like it is for me, it's incredibly easy to turn out decent pictures of NPCs in period garb or scenery without having to trawl through Google images for ages looking for the right one. It's definitely saved me a lot of time.
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Aug 9, 2023 14:44
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Titties 
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Aug 9, 2023 14:45
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Your OnlyFans page OP.
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Aug 9, 2023 14:46
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Minotaurus Rex posted:So to start I reckon podcasts are a cool idea  DicktheCat posted:There is also no way to verify anyone is who they say they are, but gently caress it, that's actually appealing. I don't want to be [actual name here] on the internet, I want to be some chucklefuck with a meme name. Yeah, this is one of the things I miss most about the old Internet.
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What’s your beef with yon podcasts? Other than the bullshit sponsorships/ads and all the culture war shitslinging/potstirring
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Aug 9, 2023 14:50
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theres something conceited about podcasting
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Aug 9, 2023 14:52
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The Moon Monster posted:Amazon is a primary cultural driver of enshittification. i thought this was sufficiently unsubtle to pass as sarcasm, but as "podcasts" and "generative ai images" are on the save list I guess not
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DicktheCat posted:forums like SA. Voted 
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Aug 9, 2023 14:53
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Weather websites are super useful.
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20 Blunts posted:theres something conceited about podcasting There’s something conceited about almost everything unfortunately nowadays what with the psychological toxic waste social media has been pouring into society as fast as it can…
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Aug 9, 2023 14:55
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The ability to talk to all my friends around the world. 
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Aug 9, 2023 14:57
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All Too Much For Me posted:i thought this was sufficiently unsubtle to pass as sarcasm, but as "podcasts" and "generative ai images" are on the save list I guess not We can leave podcasts off the list but you gotta convince me why they’re wiggedy wack. I definitely wouldn’t put generative ai images on the list tho they’re crap. I only have this shite generative ai avatar coz someone gave it to me in a thread for avatarless fucks
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Aug 9, 2023 14:58
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DicktheCat posted:Of course they loving did. Gross. Yeah, although that's down to moderation rather than format, I think. I sometimes stumble into abandoned, non-SA forums while looking for DIY or guitar info and people were really into one upmanship and just snarky unpleasantness in like 2007-2011. Some of it's almost quaint, but it's pretty galling how much casual homophobia was just kind of floating around Ultimate Guitar threads on Telecaster bridges or whatever, but it doesn't have the same vibe of everyone's mental illnesses colliding and exploding like the modern social Internet.
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Aug 9, 2023 15:03
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zombo.com
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The Something Awful Forums
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Aug 9, 2023 15:08
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Really most of the old webring style things are pretty good.
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All Too Much For Me posted:chatGPT is absolutely an enshittifier, i'm saving amazon ChatGPT is absolutely an enshittifier of other things and it itself will be enshittified in short order. But at the moment it's relatively benign and it's use is fairly open. I feel that we're in the good times here. Neocities and the retro web in general is also another bit of good internet. The fediverse is showing some promise. BBSing is showing some resurgence.
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Aug 9, 2023 15:12
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Minotaurus Rex posted:We can leave podcasts off the list but you gotta convince me why they’re wiggedy wack. Back when rss (actually let's save that) was a thing, you'd find interesting titles, and the content would just be a two hour podcast. So to me they're a pallbearer for the enshittification trait of burying the lede really deep.
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Aug 9, 2023 15:12
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Loss editsWee posted:Archive.org 
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All Too Much For Me posted:So to me they're a pallbearer for the enshittification trait of burying the lede really deep. Burying the what now
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Chief McHeath posted:Titties
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Minotaurus Rex posted:Burying the what now I don't know what a "lede" is, but they're right.
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Aug 9, 2023 15:18
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Minotaurus Rex posted:Burying the what now burying the lede is hiding the most important facts deep within. the "lede" is the first paragraph of an article in a newspaper, it was spelt "lede" and not "lead" so typesetters would know not to print it
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All Too Much For Me posted:burying the lede is hiding the most important facts deep within. Yeah that is an annoying shittified trait. Haven’t noticed it so much on podcasts as I’m not really listening to podcast for important facts but more like rambling history stuff, independent music and the aimless banter of stand up comics. I can imagine that’s hella annoying tho Minotaurus Rex fucked around with this message at 15:34 on Aug 9, 2023 |
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