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Does anyone else miss when social media was based more around niche-specific sites (deviantArt for art, last.fm for music, Steam for gaming, etc.) rather than everything being homogenised into a single general-use site (twitter, discord, etc.)?
I know it's less convenient than having your entire internet presence in one place and what I'm about to say is definitely overstating things, but I can't help but feel like those places encouraged people to foster passion and skill for a core subject-matter rather than just sending out little sentences into the e-void and wasting three hours looking at memes. I also appreciate that those sites, particularly forum-oriented ones, had containment boards for politics so you didn't have to be exposed to soapboxing 24/7. And although this is more to do with technology history and less to do with the type of website, a part of me misses snail mail private messaging. It was such an event to refresh the page and seeing a PM from a person lol.
Y'all have any neat and/or nostalgic stories?
59 posts and 13 image replies omitted. Click reply to view.Anonymous 302144
>>302136Rare forms of cognitive impairment can be exciting as case studies, but short attention spans are too prevalent for that now, like obesity a hundred years ago was so rare that people even paid money to see some lardass, but no one does that now.
Anonymous 302180
>people even paid money to see some lardass, but no one does that now.
Then explain David Blunts.
Anonymous 302181
>>302180he is such an obvious industry plant to just parody cliches in the music industry i have no idea how people are tricked by him
Anonymous 302225
>>302180>>302181I can't believe someone is actually mentioning Dave blunts holy shit. I ADORE horrible music, it's one of my most absolute favorite things to laugh at. You best believe I quote his shit lyrics multiple times a day because he's one of the worst artists I've heard in my life. I will never give him money but I will forever laugh in delight