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by lo_zamoyski 192 days ago
> chat networks

I think you may be looking at history through rose-tinted glasses. Sure, social media today is not the same, so the comparison isn’t quite sensible, but IRC was an unpleasant place full of petty egos and nasty people.

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> but IRC was an unpleasant place full of petty egos and nasty people.

One should take a look at HN. /s

I find the discussions on the early Internet (until around 2010) more civilised than today.

Today, the internet is fully weaponized by and for big companies and 3 letter agencies.