Maybe I'm just older and have been on the internet longer, but it doesn't feel as much like the "early days" as it does feel like when I first came to Reddit after Digg died (without ever having been a Digg user; it just was a coincidence that I discovered Reddit because of the hubbub).
I've been online since 1990 tho. I was literally there for the beginning of the "World Wide Web." The true Wild West of the internet.
Back before music piracy was a thing; because who's going to download a 3-4MB file on a 14k4 modem? By the time you grab one song you'd have racked up such an internet bill you might as well have bought the single.
I remember spending all day downloading files from a Quake server because I happened upon a server running Team Fortress and had to download the mod. On a 28.8k dial-up modem. It was like 500MB or something.
Then of course when I get into the game, it's on ctf_crosstheborder and was the most confusing thing I had ever encountered.
Plenty of tropes available to fill up the card:
Lemmy is becoming reddit, reeeeee!
Elon Musk Hate.
Are we still doing X?
My breakup letter to reddit.
Repost ancient memes as if its new and clever.
And "How do I block an entire instance"
"Can we have something like multireddits please"
"Can someone explain how the Fediverse works"
"I'm making a new Lemmy app"
"I can't wait for [x] to make a Lemmy app"
"Wtf is a tankie"
"Rule"
"[A meme about being trans]"
"[A meme about being neuro-atypical]"
"[A meme you have seen reposted a dozen times elsewhere]"
"I miss Apollo"
PS, I dont mean this in a bad way. I love Lemmy and it is hugely encouraging to see so many people use it. I'm just poking fun at trends I'm seeing emerge.
“Everyone here is so much nicer than on ”
Doing my best to change that :)