For me, it was that the Internet never forgets and that you should never enter your real name. In my opinion, both of these rules are now completely ignored.
- kingthrillgore ( @KingThrillgore@lemmy.ml ) 3•27 minutes ago
“Don’t believe everything you read on the internet.” -Abraham Lincoln
Social media, a gorilla getting shot, two US elections, and GenAI later, we have completely fallen off this one simple rule.
- Zorsith ( @Zorsith@lemmy.blahaj.zone ) English8•1 hour ago
Basic forum etiquette. It’s horrifying at work seeing teams “teams” (forums) used like chats, all the cross-posting and thread necromancy, people completely unable to keep topics confined to the appropriate sub-forum, etc
- SocialMediaRefugee ( @SocialMediaRefugee@lemmy.ml ) 9•2 hours ago
Don’t talk to strangers.
Searching things is easy so don’t post something without checking it. People now don’t make the slightest effort to verify a rumor or conspiracy crap.
- Didros ( @Didros@beehaw.org ) 17•3 hours ago
I learned as a kid playing star craft that there are noobs and newbs. Newbs are people new to a game who need help learning. And a noob is someone who has played for a while and refuses to learn and would rather troll.
- Hadriscus ( @Hadriscus@lemm.ee ) 1•4 minutes ago
How do you pronounce newb ?
- Overshoot2648 ( @Overshoot2648@lemm.ee ) 3•2 hours ago
Just made me realize the term is just a shortened form of newbie.
- SocialMediaRefugee ( @SocialMediaRefugee@lemmy.ml ) 1•2 hours ago
I’ve never heard the terms were treated differently. A troll was just called a troll.
- pixelscript ( @pixelscript@lemm.ee ) English1•2 hours ago
I’ve heard this one phrased: “Newbs deserve a helping hand. Noobs deserve a kicking.”
- MajorMajormajormajor ( @MajorMajormajormajor@lemmy.ca ) 1•3 hours ago
GG ez noobs.
- UltraGiGaGigantic ( @UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.ml ) English2•52 minutes ago
No re?
- PatheticGroundThing ( @PatheticGroundThing@beehaw.org ) 3•3 hours ago
Sticking around and “lurking” for a bit before you try to engage with a new community, to learn the local etiquette before you make an ass of yourself. Or at least reading the rules as a bare minimum.
- schnurrito ( @schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de ) 21•6 hours ago
On the Internet I grew up on, pretty much anything was ok except to discuss (or even speculate about) the real-world identities of users who didn’t very openly disclose them.
Now many people think the latter is ok.
- tias ( @tias@discuss.tchncs.de ) 16•6 hours ago
Don’t top post.
- corsicanguppy ( @corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca ) English3•3 hours ago
… except when it’s a forwarded convo and then it’s okay, as per 1855.
And then when is a conversation NOT a comment or update to something you’ve forwarded back? The answer is never.
So it’s all good.
- tetris11 ( @tetris11@lemmy.ml ) 2•5 hours ago
Gmail is super annoying at this, there is no way to automatically turn this off. I just have to delete the ellipsis every damn time
- dfyx ( @dfyx@lemmy.helios42.de ) 33•8 hours ago
When reading a long text, disconnect from the internet as soon as it has loaded so you don’t pay for the time you spend reading.
- fubarx ( @fubarx@lemmy.ml ) 34•10 hours ago
- tetris11 ( @tetris11@lemmy.ml ) 1•5 hours ago
(Except other dogs, and we meet every night on irc:#awoo)
- MudMan ( @MudMan@fedia.io ) 41•10 hours ago
Social media killed online aliases and I have a hard time deciding if we’re all worse for it.
Instinctively I still stick by that, though, as you can tell by my anonymous profile with no bio, but when I volunteer any amount of personal info these days people are often confused that I’m not sharing openly who I am or where I’m from. Every time someone does that it weirds me out because in the 90s telling (and asking) people those things would have been such a suspicious, sketchy move.
- CharlesReed ( @CharlesReed@fedia.io ) 3•38 minutes ago
Every time someone does that it weirds me out because in the 90s telling (and asking) people those things would have been such a suspicious, sketchy move.
And now it’s come 180 in that some see it as a red flag if you don’t give up that information. I had someone on a different social media site accuse me of being a bot because I wouldn’t give up the specific town I’m from. I’ve seen it happen to others too. It is both fascinating and insane how viewpoints have changed regarding identifying yourself online.
- Che Banana ( @The_Che_Banana@beehaw.org ) 19•10 hours ago
Facebook tried that shit with me. Ban until I sent verification of my ID so I sent a paystub photoshopped (badly) with my alias, it was accepted and it’s still there even though I left FB years ago.
- Anissem ( @Anissem@lemmy.ml ) 59•11 hours ago
Don’t pick up the phone if someone is online… I’m old
- Dizzy Devil Ducky ( @AceFuzzLord@lemm.ee ) English1•42 minutes ago
I’m not that old but was dealing with that in the mid-2000s before my parents finally switched.
- hddsx ( @hddsx@lemmy.ca ) 2•5 hours ago
You come from a nice family. My family disconnected each other all the time
- watersnipje ( @watersnipje@lemmy.blahaj.zone ) 27•10 hours ago
I’m a millennial, I learned this, and now I just don’t pick up the phone.
- henfredemars ( @henfredemars@infosec.pub ) English7•9 hours ago
It’s weird when someone calls me and it’s actually a live one.
- flashgnash ( @flashgnash@lemm.ee ) 2•8 hours ago
I’m a gen z and I can’t put down the phone
- Akasazh ( @Akasazh@feddit.nl ) 2•6 hours ago
Now try and call someone with it. I’ll wait
- aStonedSanta ( @aStonedSanta@lemm.ee ) 2•10 hours ago
I can’t remember. Did it make pterodactyl noises or is that just faxes?
- stoy ( @stoy@lemmy.zip ) 24•10 hours ago
I remember being taught in school to apply source criticism, and that seems to have largely died as a concept.
This was back in the early 2000s…
- SatyrSack ( @SatyrSack@feddit.org ) English21•10 hours ago
Never click an ad
- ℕ𝕖𝕞𝕠 ( @Nemo@slrpnk.net ) 22•11 hours ago
Internet is a proper noun and should always be capitalized.
- superkret ( @superkret@feddit.org ) 9•10 hours ago
only 1 hour a day! And if you accidentally click on a wrong link, the hackers can backtrace you or send the internet police.