But like, the internet used to be a place! Or at least it wa...
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But like, the internet used to be a place! Or at least it wa...
It is worth remembering that the internet wasn't supposed to be like this. It wasn't supposed to be six boring men with too much money creating spaces that no one likes but everyone is forced to use because those men have driven every other form of online existence into the ground. The internet was supposed to have pockets, to have enchanting fores
... See morefrom The Internet Isn't Meant To Be So Small | Defector by Kelsey McKinney
- But like, the internet used to be a place! Or at least it was for me. I love how the internet exposes the weird and funny things about being a person alive in the world. TikTok is especially good at that. But I do think the internet used to be a lot weirder. Certainly more specific. It used to be a place you’d go for a specific interest. Now it is ... See more
from How to Leave an Internet That’s Always in Crisis by Charlie Warzel
réka added
the internet actually did use to be a place - it was limited to the family desktop, and we could walk away from it and leave it behind — how freeing
