>>23718506>I remember when I was a kid and people could have different beliefs and still be friends. We need to go back to that.very true
even in youtube comments it often felt like you were really meeting someone from somewhere else in the world, and like you really got to talk to them (whatever that means)
lately you rarely feel liek you learn anything specific about the person you're talking to, and each shitflinging interaction gets more and more predictable/forgettable (which makes it more trivial for bad actors to blend in...)
it also used to feel like you could change the world from your desk
i remember when a common forum rule was "three things divide people: religion, politics, and sports. don't discuss any of them"
i guess 4chan always was/is different, but i can't help but feel something specific changed. sometimes i listen to old greentext compilations or look through archives
i have a 20-25 year old complete archive of a forum a family member was an administrator of, back then it was really easy to just take an archive of an entire forum because infrastructure wasn't bloated garbage. i need to do something with it
