> This age is not coming back, because the reason it disappeared is smartphones.
What about making you social media desktop-optimized?
Re:Orkut.com
by aboardRat4 on Friday October 09, 2026 @10:05AM
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>What about making you social media desktop-optimized?
It's not me who is making the market, it's the people who "create content": write posts, share music, take photos.
They are not doing that any more, because smartphones are luring their attention away.
Gatekeeping works when there are no other options.
Re:Orkut.com
by pavel_lishin on Thursday October 08, 2026 @12:32PM
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I arrived well after Eternal September began, but even that looks very rosy-tinted compared to the slop-filled internet of today. An Eternal Sloptember, if you will.
I remember the time when the only people on the internet were people who could pay for an expensive toy (a computer) with a keyboard, which they used in the evenings after their education-intensive jobs. Ah, and also naive kids of the same people.
This age is not coming back, because the reason it disappeared is smartphones.