Summer of 1994 on a 486 Windows 3.1 PC. I had gotten back to the States after graduating high school at an American high school in Germany after living there for 10 years. I later reflected that I was the last generation who would experience living in a foreign country in the pre-internet age, being far more cut off from my home country than people would be after. I remember not liking web browsers much in the beginning because they were so slow and preferred Usenet groups. The internet was much more clunky and primitive, but also much more human. I really miss that aspect.

“So…many…faces!!”

Instagram is also Meta. Do the young 'uns still use that?

Corporate-run social media needs to die.

And now it’s much worse.

I know you didn’t, just commenting that it’s not in the right community.

“Didn’t get cabinet or VP picks” definitely isn’t a leopards eating faces moment. They’re all doing fine.

That’s why I switched from .world. Being the biggest target makes them more averse to offending corporations.

Big boobs are absolutely a common beauty standard. That’s why breast enlargement surgery exists. Overalls are not, however.

“I can’t see ads!”

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Well, memes and tech are certainly also in abundance.

Félix Faure was president of France in 1896, but he didn’t visit Germany that year.

trans, furry, and mental health communities

I’m surprised you have anything left to view on Lemmy.

If everything you can get addicted to were made illegal, there’d be nothing legal left.