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Re:If nothing is curated, how do we find things by b0ner_t0ner on Sunday May 18, 2025 @04:48AM (#44019935)
> When I was a teen in the 90s, I got new music from the radio. The music director picked 40ish songs a week and that's what we listened to.

Those Top 40 singles were spoon-fed to you by Clear Channel within a very limited selection from the Top 5 major record labels.

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Re:If nothing is curated, how do we find things by chgs on Sunday May 18, 2025 @05:17AM (#44020064)
And?

That doesn’t change the shared cultural experience. Decades had “sounds”, disco was a thing in the 70s because everyone heard it. Today there’s no shared cultural zeitgeist. You might find communities on reddit etc, but they aren’t local.

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