The internet was great until smartphones.
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Yeah, I have watched many caving vids, so good. I just want to do it myself.
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Am a member of a Discord channel where I talk in Catalan to friends. The people are nice there and I keep up my Catalan.
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Quite partial to the cookdandbombd comedy forum. Usually something interesting or desolate to read on there.
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Obsessed with this Insta account:
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Was going to reply that I’ve just taken a quick look but that quick look may have started 20 minutes ago.
Every swipe on every post holds onto you.
Can’t sub to that - I’d never get anything done ever again.
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Jacob Silverman wrote a great piece on this very thing in the FT a few weekends back in their weekend magazine.
It’s called Welcome to Slop World if you want to google the article (I would link but I get the print version and the digital one is paywalled).
I think almost everyone on here is also old enough to remember when the internet was really fucking cool and interesting. I’m sure things will come around again in some way - after all - aren’t cool younger people into ‘retro’ late 90s/early 00s again (i.e. using digital cameras and listening to Pavement)?
As it happens, even the inception of Twitter was actually quite fun and innocuous compared to what it has become - it seemed to originally be used for parties so people could connect and be like “we’re drinking here at X, with Y, at Z…”
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