You kids might laugh now, but once upon a time, this was a perfectly valid answer that typically elicited wonderment and awe. Once upon a time, the Internet was some inaccessible, mystical land that very few people had access to or even understood. Kind of like Narnia, but without the Christian overtones. A digital image that you downloaded from the Internet was like Marco Polo bringing opium back from China.
Things change, and things remain the same
Dee-dee-dee-dee-deeedoooo, bingBONG, bingBONg-clickclack…gsssSsssSshhHhhhhh…GGSSSSHHHHHT
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-_ alt –_ binaries —_ pictures ----_ wholesome
/u/WordWordNumber
/u/Word-Word-Number
Reddit’s randomly generated usernames just made it so much easier for bots to exist.
This is one of the small reasons I love lemmy. I can have the username I want. Unlike other social media where I have to add numbers and underscores because The username already exists.
“In Reddit AI botlandia, they’re eating the /all, the bots that came in, they’re eating the /popular”
Im guessing something from rule 34…
I was curious out of reflex for a second, and then I remembered it was “from the Internet” so I better don’t
