Hello fellow blue name person.

Yep, it’s just Murphy’s Law of data: everything you regret posting will be in public archives forever, everything you want to preserve will have gotten deleted the next time you try to find it.

I mentally associate the concept the most with the late 2000’s when Encyclopedia Dramatica (a troll wiki dedicated to making fun of people) was at peak popularity and could ruin peoples lives if an article was made on a person there. All you had to do was type in a persons name on google, and chances are their ED article was one of the first results. But then not even 2 years into the next decade, ED imploded because the site admins wanted the place to be more sterile and profitable, and they were tired of being threatened by lawsuits.

You could argue that Encyclopedia Dramatica lives on in spirit as Kiwifarms, but at this point Kiwifarms struggles to even remain online 24/7 because they managed to piss off the wrong people.

Nothing is eternal on the internet. The only way to save information is to actively back it up and maintain it.

I mean, I like knowing when I’m saying something incorrectly, and learning the correct way to say it. I value communication through text a lot because I have some issues with communicating verbally, so I like to know how to properly write what I want to say. So I didn’t mind the grammar/spelling bots as long as they were polite about it, they were just providing accessibility to knowledge, at least in my eyes. It was the rude or condescending ones I didn’t like.

I wish there were more. I just found out at work that “deprecated” and “depreciated” are different words, it was so embarrassing.

I always thought it’s funny to see such a spelling bot on linguistics themed subs where everyone was like “fck you descriptivist” and they were downvoted into oblivion

I didn’t mind the fact that it was there, I was always just annoyed at how useless the memory hints were. Like yeah, of course I could spell “neither” if I just remember the e comes before the i… that’s the problem.

It’s like saying “if you want to be rich just get more money” or “NASCAR is easy cuz it’s all left turns”

Here on which instance? That’s the nice part about Lemmy, those rules are set per instance.

I feel like I haven’t seen a single person use “could of” or “would of” here.

The defense on Reddit was always “NOT EVERY1 ENGLISH FIRST LANGUAGE”

I don’t have the largest sample size, but I’ve never met someone who makes this mistake whose first language isn’t English.

Capitalism killed it. That’s how things go. They are great for a while then get too big and have to keep growing for some reason. The pursuit of perpetual growth ruins everything

Agreed. Have been on Steam for almost 19 years. Nothing has really degraded as far as the service goes, and Valve’s approach to listening to community feedback is good. We’ve saw controversy, mainly Paid Mods and CS:GO gambling, both have been taken care of for the most part due to community pushback. I can’t think of a controversy that has made me want to leave the service though. With Reddit, it was a slow decline to its death on July 1st.

Yahoo answers held on for decades after it was relevant, I’m sure Reddit will be around in 15 years.

Sadly, Remindbot will be reminding a ghost town populated only by other bots

I suppose I still have an account from 2009 that I don’t ever use. I went through at least two dozen others that I deleted since then though.

dementia

dementia

Wonder how long until someone makes a lemmy instance for only bots, with some cool domain like @lemmy.bot

Then we don’t have to remember all of the domains, and we can get easy to remember bots like;

remindme@lemmy.bot

@lemonadebunny Here is your reminder!

@lemonadebunny Ok, I will remind you on Wednesday Jul 5, 2023 at 2:43 PM PDT.