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by lin83 1513 days ago
I'm just as cynical.

> I’ve been on the internet since I was 14 (11 years ago).

The author is young. They weren't around to remember the early internet or life without it. Their childhood/adolescence is corporate controlled, algorithm driven websites like Youtube and Facebook. Their outlook as an "Internet native" has been shaped by the enforced behaviours of sites like Twitter.