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 Kind of bored of talk about what social media should/shouldn’t be etc.

Back in the day it was just chat shit and make hot friends. No need for a starter pack or anything, just a CD ROM and fun times. 
 Accidentally liked this 3 times. It deserves a few more likes from me lol 
 Were you around when AOL chat was a thing? 
 Yes and Win MX chat rooms. 
 Yeah, those were fun times 
 IRC is still the reigning champ 
 The Voyage app does actually bring some old school vibes to the nostr ecosystem.  
 Interesting… will check (unless it’s on Android and then I won’t). 
 I believe it is only on android 🫂
I like to think there will be more options like this in the future  
 " It was just chat shit and make hot friends."
- pedophile John on ICQ chat in 1996 
 lol  
 Lol old friends bands and blogs and stuff didn't even have social media. Regular hyperlinks to each others shitty pages on angel fire and geocities worked fine. It was a great time when the early search engines brought out all kinds of crazy webpages people made like "Ray Liotta makes me want to kill myself" 
 Exactly. When I were a lad we didn’t need para-social, we had paranoia.