lamp on Nostr: " Lots of these were either deeply objectionable or really stupid, or both, but there ...

" Lots of these were either deeply objectionable or really stupid, or both, but there was also so much cool stuff on the old, good internet."
I recall those days. Useful sites with easy-to-find information abounded. Search engines had like a hundred boolean operator choices for highly targeted search results. There were many wingnuts--and you know what? Many of those wingnuts were amicable and entertaining. The horde of modern wingnuts are brittle, fragile, highly toxic, vindictive, vicious, vengeful, and vile. Even the slightest interaction with them is at a minimum dangerous for your emotional well-being. Meanwhile the measured and well-thought speech is shadow banned or blocked by the wingnuts who now seem to run the show on behalf of their crony capitalist benefactors--while claiming to fight against 'capitalism' or 'fascism' or whatever 'ism' label is needful to gift wrap their aggression. And the dominant search engines ensure users can only find wingnut-run playground sandboxes--and they charge premium for a paper-thin bucket and wobbly plastic shovel.