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I'm talking about what they say at 8:20:

Bulletin boards, forums, blogs. The main difference to today was twofold:  

For one there were no algorithms fighting to keep you online at any cost – at some point you were done with the internet for the day, as mind blowing as this may sound.

But more importantly: The old internet was very fractured, split into thousands of different communities, like small villages gathering around shared beliefs and interests.

These villages were separated from each other by digital rivers or mountains. These communities worked because they mirrored  real life much more than social media:  

Each village had its own culture and set of rules.  Maybe one community was into rough humour and soft moderation, another had strict rules and banned  easily.

If you didn’t play by the village rules,  you would be banned – or you could just go and move to another village that suited you better.

So instead of all of us gathering in one place, overwhelming our brains at a townsquare that in the end just leads to us going insane, one solution to achieve less social sorting may be extremely simple:

go back to smaller online communities.

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[–] YoBuckStopsHere@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I am subscribed to several different instances of lemmy and I go to all of them through LW all sorted by new.

[–] theKalash@feddit.ch 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I am subscribed to several different instances of lemmy

You mean you have accounts on different instances? I guess that is kind of a workaround that avoid the problem in the video. Then, you could just as easily make a separate facebook account for each group you join. But I don't think that's how most people will use it.

[–] YoBuckStopsHere@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

No, I just use my LW account, but I could make other accounts if I wanted to. I could use Mastodon or any other service to browse the Fediverse with.

[–] Blaze@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 1 year ago

You mean you have accounts on different instances?

I guess they meant community rather than instances