Fediverse, the social media system for 40+ year old people who built the world wide web and regret it.

[fogti@chaos.social]

@nekoplanet @dlakelan also 20 something queer (new school?) anarchists.

[elilla@transmom.love]

@dlakelan was about to say "and furries", then I realised I was just restating the point

[nate@coxenheim.social]

@dlakelan I do not like how accurate this is. Stop it.

[der_mit_ph@toot.berlin]

@dlakelan I am in this picture and I am not sure if I like it.

[amiserabilist@beige.party]

@publicwondering @douglasvb @dlakelan

[douglasvb@m.ai6yr.org]

@w_b @60sRefugee @dlakelan I dunno. Pretty sure letters to the editor and personal ads in the local newspaper were the OG social media.

[chris_colvin@mastodon.social]

@dlakelan I’m only 34, but can I come along?

[the_moep@mastodon.de]

@dlakelan At the risk of repeating others or taking it too serious:

This ignores a significant amount of people actually building and using this thing.

[nathanking@mastodon.social]

@dlakelan Pepperidge Farm remembers when the web was for sharing useful information and had no corporations or ads. Pepperidge Farm is now owned by Campbell's.

[nux@fosstodon.org]

@dlakelan Nailed it!

[alienghic@timeloop.cafe]

@dlakelan

I've seen people under 30 here!

They may all be corporate hating anarchists though.

[randomgeek@masto.hackers.town]

@dlakelan @d_rift to be fair I don’t regret building the web. I regret building all its parasitic industries that promised to be symbiotic.

[pteryx@dice.camp]

@aoanla @iakobsdesamos @douglasvb @dlakelan
I'm starting to suspect that the vast majority of people *didn't notice* that for about a decade and a half there, the Net was a public space primarily about things that *weren't* corporate.

(Before that it was more restricted-access, after that it had been captured.)

[d_rift@beige.party]

@randomgeek @dlakelan in an SF accent, "trust us bro" rhymes with "symbiot", so I guess the con was there all along, but. Yeah, same.

[douglasvb@m.ai6yr.org]

@pteryx @aoanla @iakobsdesamos @dlakelan wasn't that an amazing time for humanity?

[pteryx@dice.camp]

@douglasvb @aoanla @iakobsdesamos @dlakelan
It was! And it allowed me to actually make friends for once, too!

[rothko@beige.party]

@douglasvb @dlakelan YES

[douglasvb@m.ai6yr.org]

@pteryx @aoanla @iakobsdesamos @dlakelan same!!!

I am STILL friends with people I met online in the early days of the Internet and I've met about 75% of them in person at least once!

[rothko@beige.party]

@MaryAustinBooks @iakobsdesamos @douglasvb @dlakelan man, i miss livejournal.

[pteryx@dice.camp]

@rothko @MaryAustinBooks @iakobsdesamos @douglasvb @dlakelan
At the very least, Dreamwidth exists. Fork from back when LJ started showing signs of going bad.