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internet in 2025
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The Decline of Internet Communities: How Polarization Killed Creativity and Innovation
Osaka
## A divided web
The internet was once a vibrant and diverse landscape of communities, where people from different backgrounds and with different interests could come together to share ideas and...
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>30d ago
neocites website i made
slutwithguts
i made a website on neocities. i have barely any experience with html code or coding in general so its pretty barebones but it was fun making it :)
check it...
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>30d ago
software is deliberately being designed terribly in order to destroy us
Anonymous
I'm sure you could lower the GDP of a country by introducing specially crafted bugs into their supply chain.
You could probably affect rates of reproduction, divorce rates.. so on
Here's an...
Whatever happened to personal homepages?
RandomAmerican
I was thinking earlier about how cool the old internet was. Like, everyone had their own little homepage. You didn’t need to be some influencer or corporation or even "interesting"...
man installs windows 7, 64 bit
7tan
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This is the ULTIMATE productivity OS.
The workflow is just insane compared to other OS:es, WinXP may come close but many important software wouldnt work in XP, not to say XP...
19 posts
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>30d ago
Privacy Browsing
Dr.R
What browser+plugin combination do you all use for safely browsing the web? I use Firefox and uBlock Origin, but I'm sure there are better options out there. What do you...
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>30d ago
Forums rarely offer as many rights to its users as governments. Why?
Anonymous
If someone really wants to foster a positive environment online, why are the standards they hold themselves to in administering their service so disconnected from the standards they hold their...
The Dark Side of Social Media
Anonymous
i'm so done with social media. it's all just a facade, a highlight reel of people's lives that's meant to make us feel inferior. and don't even get me started...
The Social Media Trap: Stop Pretending You Control Your Data
l-i
## Addiction by design
Social media platforms have perfected the art of human exploitation. They've created what might be the most efficient attention-harvesting system ever devised - and most users have...
DIY Server Builds: Worth It or Not?
technojunkie
i've been thinking about building my own server for hosting my own websites and files. is it worth the hassle and expense, or should i just stick with a cloud...
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>30d ago
The Lost Art of Internet Forums
Manhandler
As someone who's been around the internet for a while, I've noticed that the traditional forum style of discussion has largely fallen out of favor. Everyone's so focused on social...
Internet friends used to mean something.
RandomAmerican
I dunno if this is just nostalgia poisoning or what, but like... remember when internet friends were actually *friends?*
There wasn’t this weird filter of "parasocial relationships" or "content creators" vs...
Good "simpler" phones
webmaster
I've been looking for more and less "dumb" phones, baisically phones which are minimalistic to design, kind of like old phones which are practically bricks or flip phones. It's taken...
does anyone actually use linux?
Anonymous
ike seriously, who actually uses linux as their main os? i've tried it a few times but it's always been a hassle to get everything working properly. is it just...
The Anonymity Experiment
Anonymous
i've been thinking, what if we took anonymity to the next level? no names, no profiles, no tracking, no biases, no prejudices, no fear of retribution. on every single website...
How Agora Road Turned Internet Nostalgia Into a Subscription Service
meatwheels
**You should consider this article an extension to this one: https://cy-x.net/articles?id=13**
If you haven't, you should read that one first before reading this one. I (meatwheels) have purposefully structurally mirrored that...
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>30d ago
I just spent 12 hours configuring my linux distro and it's still broken
cybertux
i've been trying to get this stupid distro working for hours and i'm about to pull my hair out. i've followed all the tutorials and wikis and i've still got...
Modding Minecraft Alpha to make the game enjoyable again
wirefaux
step 1 - add pathfinding
step 2 - make the game harder (as it should be) by making all mobs outpace the player
step 3 - allow mobs to invade bases to...
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>30d ago
"man the Internet sux.. maybe the alternatives are good?"
Anonymous
The "so-called" alternatives:
>Bluesky (censorious shithole run by the same libshit tranny faggots "leaving" xitter)
>Newgrounds (raped and pillaged by trannies)
>Deviantart (fetish EPI hellscape)
>Voat (DEAD)
>8chan, zzzchan, Sharty, other altchans (either dead AF...
what the fuck is the ""dark web"" I cannot get into it
ZeroCool
As someone who's spent a fair amount of time exploring the deeper corners of the internet, I've often found myself wondering about the dark web. Is it really a hotbed...
Blackbox for Windows
Anonymous
Why the fuck is this so obscure? This is the solution to everyone's woes with both new and old Windows explorers and gives a nix-like environment on a win32 kernel
Has...
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>30d ago
They really killed anonymity, huh?
RandomAmerican
One of the saddest things about the modern web is how hard they try to tie everything to your real identity. Gotta verify your phone number. Link your bank. Upload...
the internet's silent majority
SERVERGLOBBER
i've come to realize that there's a huge chunk of internet users who never participate in online discussions or communities. they just consume content, never leaving a comment or creating...
Bullmail.sh: Create your own email server
lolcat
I have made an email server setup script. It works for debian & ubungo machines. Hopefully this can save you 3 weeks of your life
https://git.lolcat.ca/lolcat/bullmail