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1. Meemoo (meemoo@varishangout.net)'s status on Friday, 03-Nov-2023 20:54:05 JST Meemoo
   What the fuck happened to the internet?
   
   Why is everything like this now?
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   • Meemoo (meemoo@varishangout.net)'s status on Friday, 03-Nov-2023 21:04:11 JST Meemoo

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     Different look, same bullshit.
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   • :tamamo_dab:Tamamo:tamamo_dab: (tamamo@varishangout.net)'s status on Friday, 03-Nov-2023 21:09:08 JST :tamamo_dab:Tamamo:tamamo_dab:

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     @Meemoo I fucking hate video guides/walkthroughs with a burning passion.
     
     Written guide: Ctrl-f to where you are and follow. Can be printed out.
     Video guide: Scrub through timetime to the relevant part. Have to rewind if you miss something. Demands your constant attention.
     
     I miss autists writing FAQ's for obscure games. At least there's steam guides now.
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   • Suzu :miku_happy: (suzu@varishangout.net)'s status on Friday, 03-Nov-2023 21:15:38 JST Suzu :miku_happy:

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     @Tamamo @Meemoo oh boy, I miss GameFAQs so much.
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   • Suzu :miku_happy: (suzu@varishangout.net)'s status on Friday, 03-Nov-2023 21:27:43 JST Suzu :miku_happy:

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     • Suzu :miku_happy:
     • :tamamo_dab:Tamamo:tamamo_dab:
     @Tamamo @Meemoo BTW, to answer your question, things are like this because ads.
     8 minute video, IIRC, is the minimum time you need to get mid video ads.
     In the case of written IGN articles, it happens both because they need the padding to justify having a whole page full of ads for the article, and also because the written article is literally the script they used for their 8 minute video that is linked somewhere in the page.
     
     Simply put, Google ruined the internet in more than one way.
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   • Machismo (zerglingman@freespeechextremist.com)'s status on Friday, 03-Nov-2023 21:41:15 JST Machismo

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     @Meemoo Jews.
   • Nepfag (nepfag@varishangout.net)'s status on Friday, 03-Nov-2023 21:41:39 JST Nepfag

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     @Meemoo Anon uses an adblocker, here's what the IGN article really looks like. Any questions?
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   • Morgthorak the Undead (morgthorak@poa.st)'s status on Friday, 03-Nov-2023 21:42:12 JST Morgthorak the Undead

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     • Nepfag
     @nepfag @Meemoo Thank you for reminding me why I use one too. OMFG, how can anybody use the web without blocking ads???? 🤨
   • Machismo (zerglingman@freespeechextremist.com)'s status on Friday, 03-Nov-2023 21:42:12 JST Machismo

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     • Morgthorak the Undead
     • Nepfag
     @morgthorak @Meemoo @nepfag I don't block ads. I just don't support loading them to begin with.
   • Meemoo (meemoo@varishangout.net)'s status on Friday, 03-Nov-2023 22:07:38 JST Meemoo

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     • Suzu :miku_happy:
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     @Suzu @Tamamo there are still people writing guides.
     Problem is, it's all on discord now
     
     AND THE FUCKING SHIT DOESN'T SHOW UP IN SEARCH RESULTS
     
     I FUCKING HATE DISCORD FOR DOING THIS WHY DO I HAVE TO FIND AND JOIN SERVERS FOR THIS SHIT FUCK YOU
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   • istván (istvan@noagendasocial.com)'s status on Friday, 03-Nov-2023 22:13:05 JST istván

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     @Meemoo Because we stopped writing for humans and began writing for robots.

     This is all the fault of SEO.

   • Meemoo (meemoo@varishangout.net)'s status on Friday, 03-Nov-2023 22:13:05 JST Meemoo

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     • istván
     @istvan the amount of AI shit in results is driving me fucking insane
     
     Why is that shit all over the results no matter what search engine I use?
     Like holy fuck I despise Ai for making search engines unusable :senko_scream:
   • Meemoo (meemoo@varishangout.net)'s status on Friday, 03-Nov-2023 22:24:12 JST Meemoo

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     • Suzu :miku_happy:
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     @SuperSnekFriend @Suzu @Tamamo stop the cope
     
     This shit is genuinely killing the internet
     
     Everything being generated and posted over the past 8+ years will be lost to time.
     It only takes 1 blue haired freak dilating for entire servers/threads/whatever hosting a wealth of info on niche games to get erased forever.
     And zoom zooms are too retarded to backup and archive their shit
     
     Downplaying it by saying "it wasn't worth it anyway" is retardedly ignoring the inevitable catastrophe that WILL happen
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   • SantaSnekFriend (supersnekfriend@varishangout.net)'s status on Friday, 03-Nov-2023 22:24:13 JST SantaSnekFriend

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     • Suzu :miku_happy:
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     @Meemoo @Suzu @Tamamo
     If it's only on Discord, then it was never worth reading. :zt_smug2:
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   • Suzu :miku_happy: (suzu@varishangout.net)'s status on Friday, 03-Nov-2023 22:41:33 JST Suzu :miku_happy:

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     • SantaSnekFriend
     • :tamamo_dab:Tamamo:tamamo_dab:
     @Meemoo @SuperSnekFriend @Tamamo exactly. I don't care for the popular games like Diablo or the newst FIFA/COD/whatever.
     
     But there's a shit ton of small/obscure/niche games that don't have info in any website anymore, it's all in Discord, and that shit is very ephemeral.
     In general, we went away from the idea of the open, descentralized internet and flocked to centralized containers that do their own thing and don't talk to anything else (it's basically impossible to archive Discord shit, for instance).
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   • :tamamo_dab:Tamamo:tamamo_dab: (tamamo@varishangout.net)'s status on Friday, 03-Nov-2023 23:08:41 JST :tamamo_dab:Tamamo:tamamo_dab:

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     • Suzu :miku_happy:
     • SantaSnekFriend
     @Meemoo @SuperSnekFriend @Suzu I guess dear feeder's Jewsh prediction was right that the big Internet will eventually die and everything will become smaller internets.
     
     Big planforms like Joowgle, Zogbook, Xitter, Leddit, Discunt, etc are all in the process of completely walling off their platforms with mandatory accounts to even view what the fuck is on there for more tracking and killing off anonymity.
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   • Santa Noodle ☦️ (bowsacnoodle@poa.st)'s status on Saturday, 04-Nov-2023 00:44:26 JST Santa Noodle ☦️

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     • Suzu :miku_happy:
     • SantaSnekFriend
     • :tamamo_dab:Tamamo:tamamo_dab:
     @Suzu @Meemoo @SuperSnekFriend @Tamamo Diablo 2 was awesome. 800x600 glorious 2D graphics.
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   • luithe (luithe@varishangout.net)'s status on Saturday, 04-Nov-2023 00:51:33 JST luithe

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     • Suzu :miku_happy:
     • SantaSnekFriend
     • :tamamo_dab:Tamamo:tamamo_dab:
     @Meemoo @SuperSnekFriend @Suzu @Tamamo been trying to get last origin discord to start up a fediverse or self hosted website for data and archiving shit
     So far unsuccessful
   • SantaSnekFriend (supersnekfriend@varishangout.net)'s status on Saturday, 04-Nov-2023 04:28:12 JST SantaSnekFriend

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     • Suzu :miku_happy:
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     @Meemoo @Suzu @Tamamo
     You missed the point, which was tongue in cheek anyways.
     
     Anybody keeping their data only on a volatile, closed-source, closed-wall, centralized, and for-profit service like Discord doesn't truly care of their data and thinks what they create is just as worth viewing and archiving as some random greeting post.
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   • DarkMahesvara (darkmahesvara@varishangout.net)'s status on Saturday, 04-Nov-2023 04:38:29 JST DarkMahesvara

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     • Suzu :miku_happy:
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     @SuperSnekFriend @Meemoo @Suzu @Tamamo shitcord is the platform where information go to die. i take sub reddits over it anyway
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   • oussy :ougi: (peemasons@poa.st)'s status on Saturday, 04-Nov-2023 14:33:23 JST oussy :ougi:

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     @Meemoo because india has broadband now
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   • Right-wing SJW :windmill_of_friendship: (rightwingsjw@poa.st)'s status on Saturday, 04-Nov-2023 14:35:09 JST Right-wing SJW :windmill_of_friendship:

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     • Watermelon Man
     @watermelon @Meemoo already ai slop has made finding good art on fedi twice as difficult
   • Watermelon Man (watermelon@poa.st)'s status on Saturday, 04-Nov-2023 14:35:11 JST Watermelon Man

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     @Meemoo Everybody's worried that ChatGPT will evolve into Skynet and murder us all, but its real danger is just padding all information on the internet with 90% noise and fluff to make more ad space.
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   • SooopyAnon (spoopyanon@poa.st)'s status on Saturday, 04-Nov-2023 14:35:33 JST SooopyAnon

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     @Meemoo God bless the random youtuber with 3 followers who puts up a 30 second to-the-point vid with zero narration 👑
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