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There's only one social media site that's still the same as it was a decade ago. The only problem is that it was never good.
It's not the same place it was 20 years ago 😂 I hate how old I fucking feel knowing I was an og /b/tard
How has it changed? I’m genuinely not familiar with it. I know of the spicy reputation it once had, but I rarely see it mentioned anymore these days. I assume censorship or something like it found its way there?
Check this out, it's actually quite interesting: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dU7gCt-7kKk
Edit: and no, it's not rickroll, even if it would have been very appropriate here.
User posts are down, bot posts are up. Go to anything political or US, Israel or Iran news and all you will see are hundreds of homo erotic AI images of Trump posted by bots
the bots switch themes every day, one day it was all about posting BBC, the other gore and so it goes
Ugh, that does sound terrible. I liked Reddit reasonably well before 2016 turned everything and anything into politics. And then covid and the whole Ukraine situation turned everything to shit even further.
I really miss the 2000 internet when it was just nerd discussions and the occasional funny gif.
Just because the people have changed doesn’t mean the platform has changed
Nah it changed, if you were there early on you know the vibe started changing by 07 and by 10 it was kinda what it is now. I'm pretty sure I fully left in 2011.
While yea alot was user base ageing out it was also leadership, rules, posting numbers, OC reduction, government actions.