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submitted 1 year ago by Foresight@lemmy.ml to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

When I was growing up the internet was a place to be liberated from the world say what you want to say, be whoever you want and form genuine communities with shared interests. Now the internet feels like a tool to enslave the mind with identity echo chambers and any deviation leads you to being banned and blocked shunned and silenced within a void that is inescapable. Novel unique websites coded manually by hobbyists running servers for free in the commons allowing people access to the free flow of information under the banner of "information should be free" has largely gone away with corpratisation. I miss the days when the internet was populated largely by nerds aiming to make a better world not this controlled censored hell hole of profiteering.

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[-] papertowels@lemmy.one 20 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

"there was once a time when the sky was open, when the twilight beckoned one forth, when the nascent rivers of the internet flowed free with information", he waxed nostalgic.

"Fuck you and keep your ideas to yourself", he says when someone says something he dislikes.

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[-] Encode1307@lemm.ee 6 points 1 year ago
[-] Foresight@lemmy.ml -5 points 1 year ago

Well that's taking what I said out of context

this post was submitted on 31 Jul 2023
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