• @[email protected]
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    1 month ago

    You kids might laugh now, but once upon a time, this was a perfectly valid answer that typically elicited wonderment and awe. Once upon a time, the Internet was some inaccessible, mystical land that very few people had access to or even understood. Kind of like Narnia, but without the Christian overtones. A digital image that you downloaded from the Internet was like Marco Polo bringing opium back from China.

    Things change, and things remain the same

    • @[email protected]
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      21 month ago

      Dee-dee-dee-dee-deeedoooo, bingBONG, bingBONg-clickclack…gsssSsssSshhHhhhhh…GGSSSSHHHHHT

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      -_ alt –_ binaries —_ pictures ----_ wholesome

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      1 month ago

      “In Reddit AI botlandia, they’re eating the /all, the bots that came in, they’re eating the /popular”

    • Ricky Rigatoni
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      61 month ago

      Reddit’s randomly generated usernames just made it so much easier for bots to exist.

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        11 month ago

        This is one of the small reasons I love lemmy. I can have the username I want. Unlike other social media where I have to add numbers and underscores because The username already exists.

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      21 month ago

      I was curious out of reflex for a second, and then I remembered it was “from the Internet” so I better don’t