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Re:No More Free Work from Marak: Pay Me or Fork This by bovermyer on Monday November 09, 2020 @07:49AM (#25034181)
No, the mainstream internet is the nasty place.

The "old" Internet is still out there, at places like https://tilde.town.

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Re:No More Free Work from Marak: Pay Me or Fork This by donmcronald on Monday November 09, 2020 @11:02AM (#25036143)
I would like the spirit of the old internet with modern graphics. I don't understand why sites like that need to look like they're from the 90s.
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Re:No More Free Work from Marak: Pay Me or Fork This by webmaven on Monday November 09, 2020 @05:41PM (#25040838)
> I don't understand why sites like that need to look like they're from the 90s.

Nostalgia and signalling (that leverages said nostalgia), basically.

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