If you are in your late thirties to mid-forties right now, there is a good chance that you have spent most of your life in a cycle of making some sort of home on the internet only to have it crumble beneath you like chalk and having to start over.
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@evacide And if you’re in your 50’s, that process started on local dial-up bulletin board systems before shifting to the internet…
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If you are in your late thirties to mid-forties right now, there is a good chance that you have spent most of your life in a cycle of making some sort of home on the internet only to have it crumble beneath you like chalk and having to start over.
@evacide and me just ambling about the web... homelessly.
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If you are in your late thirties to mid-forties right now, there is a good chance that you have spent most of your life in a cycle of making some sort of home on the internet only to have it crumble beneath you like chalk and having to start over.
@evacide shameless-self-advertisement: We exist as a forum for 26 years, and we're definitely aiming for a few more anniversaries :).
But yes, we've seen other forums come and go, and it's a shame to see a community vanish :(.
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@evacide is that old enough to have had a geocities page?
I still kind of feel like the idea that we would all have "homepages" linked together by common interests and spontaneous social networking was one of our better ones. Fediverse is pretty cool too though... -
If you are in your late thirties to mid-forties right now, there is a good chance that you have spent most of your life in a cycle of making some sort of home on the internet only to have it crumble beneath you like chalk and having to start over.
50s and 60s, over and over.
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@TerpEE93@hachyderm.io @evacide@hachyderm.io
I was a MUSH enjoyer myself back when the difference ment anything. 
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If you are in your late thirties to mid-forties right now, there is a good chance that you have spent most of your life in a cycle of making some sort of home on the internet only to have it crumble beneath you like chalk and having to start over.
@evacide
I just realized the internet is a sand castle. -
50s and 60s, over and over.
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If you are in your late thirties to mid-forties right now, there is a good chance that you have spent most of your life in a cycle of making some sort of home on the internet only to have it crumble beneath you like chalk and having to start over.
@evacide Why the age restriction? Some of us started with Usenet and/or bulletin boards ... and some decades earlier with amateur radio.
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@evacide A global DDoS attack – and let the internet go to hell xD– just kidding, but it’s tempting
@scriptkiddielucifer @evacide for a moment I thought you were describing what the billionaires did
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If you are in your late thirties to mid-forties right now, there is a good chance that you have spent most of your life in a cycle of making some sort of home on the internet only to have it crumble beneath you like chalk and having to start over.
@evacide I've never thought of it this way but it's definitely true. Long dead niche forums, MMOs, etc.
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@evacide i miss the time when my home was irc and usenet
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If you are in your late thirties to mid-forties right now, there is a good chance that you have spent most of your life in a cycle of making some sort of home on the internet only to have it crumble beneath you like chalk and having to start over.
@evacide I've been through a few, especially on chat clients, but the Twitter diaspora was a big one for me. I'm glad Mastodon is seemingly immune to platform killing stupidity like that.
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If you are in your late thirties to mid-forties right now, there is a good chance that you have spent most of your life in a cycle of making some sort of home on the internet only to have it crumble beneath you like chalk and having to start over.
@evacide no i'm still shitposting on somethingawful and irc.
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If you are in your late thirties to mid-forties right now, there is a good chance that you have spent most of your life in a cycle of making some sort of home on the internet only to have it crumble beneath you like chalk and having to start over.
@evacide multiple times. It’s almost like profit-driven things aren’t supposed to exist.
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@ClickyMcTicker @marielgm @evacide
You kind of get that at a coarse level by joining a geographically local instance if one exists
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If you are in your late thirties to mid-forties right now, there is a good chance that you have spent most of your life in a cycle of making some sort of home on the internet only to have it crumble beneath you like chalk and having to start over.
@evacide oh, yeah, sure. So, are we just being goth about the past or do we wanna burn the networks and take everything we're owed? I'm down either way.
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If you are in your late thirties to mid-forties right now, there is a good chance that you have spent most of your life in a cycle of making some sort of home on the internet only to have it crumble beneath you like chalk and having to start over.
@evacide two of the forums that I basically grew up on are still going, but the one that was very much my first internet home had some very vocal alt-right folks that the admins refused to ban, so I stopped visiting around 2016. Tried to go back a few months ago only to find some long-time members basically cheering on the Gaza genocide, so decided it could fuck off into the sun forever.
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If you are in your late thirties to mid-forties right now, there is a good chance that you have spent most of your life in a cycle of making some sort of home on the internet only to have it crumble beneath you like chalk and having to start over.
@evacide cringy it may sounds but since the BBS days I've always felt like a 'digital nomad', purely people you like to hang around, don't always want to stay together for long periods of time.
in the past i hosted my own BBS and echomailing network to get some 'stability' to my online circles. but in 2026, it would require non-trivial $ to host due to the sheer scale and noise in feeds.
sometimes everyone gets off the bus except you, maybe new passengers will come along for the ride, or maybe you'll drive alone into the sunset... it's important to enjoy the journey, not the destination.
I guess.
I miss that
