i love lemmy, don’t get me wrong, i’ve been here since almost the beginning and it’s possibly the best community in the internet for me. i know the people, we all more or less share the same ideas. etc.

but lately ive just been really into old websites, where it was mostly static, squared, that kind of thing. i just love the imageboard/chan aesthetic, but not the people. ive been lurking a bit in lainchan (which is mostly okay for a chan and has a really nice vibe) and neocities lately. i’d love if lemmy had a ui which looks like a chan.

do you browse any community that’s like 2000’s 2010’s internet era?

https://neocities.org/ https://lainchan.org/

  • comfy@lemmy.ml
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    2 hours ago

    You could also use something like Tampermonkey (?) to make your own minimal CSS style for Lemmy, making it minimal, lean and blocky for you.

  • comfy@lemmy.ml
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    2 hours ago

    chans

    Plenty of smaller, interests specific ones. Some even ban frogposters on sight or only allow politics in a containment thread. I think /comfy/ board is still alive somewhere. There are also a few larger openly-left ones, like the infamous /leftypol/ (split into leftypol.org and leftychan.net, each with their own pros and cons) and GETchan (famously upload some great music compilations). I was about to suggest lainchan but you already have. Nukechan is probably too slow but has some high-quality threads.

    Erischan and plus4chan are interest-specific and not explicitly left, but have left tendencies.

    The chan format (not merely the minimal aesthetic of English language chans) has a big impact on their culture. I don’t really believe in just putting a Yotsuba B skin over Lemmy. There are federated imageboards (I don’t believe it’s fediverse) but moderation is probably a nightmare, I assume it would just be used be freeze peach naziphiles banned from everywhere less.

  • eldavi@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    6 hours ago

    https://neocities.org/

    the old aesthetics here never fails to put a smile on my face.

    for a moment it makes me feel like it’s the 90’s and i’m reading nonsensical trek fan fiction again.

  • IWW4@lemmy.zip
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    9 hours ago

    Aww no… Pretty much everywhere I spent time on/at back then is gone.