Fediverse, the social media system for 40+ year old people who built the world wide web and regret it.
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@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.)
@pteryx @aoanla @iakobsdesamos @dlakelan wasn't that an amazing time for humanity?
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@pteryx @aoanla @iakobsdesamos @dlakelan wasn't that an amazing time for humanity?
@douglasvb @aoanla @iakobsdesamos @dlakelan
It was! And it allowed me to actually make friends for once, too! -
@dlakelan There isn't a "big mood" style of expression big enough to express the size of the mood I'm currently experiencing from your toot.
This was all a mistake. We should go back to disconnected BBSes. Or maybe ditch all the digital stuff and return to encyclopedias.
@douglasvb @dlakelan YES
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@douglasvb @aoanla @iakobsdesamos @dlakelan
It was! And it allowed me to actually make friends for once, too!@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!
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@iakobsdesamos @douglasvb @dlakelan
I want to cry when I think about the blog and lolcat glory days of the 2000s.@MaryAustinBooks @iakobsdesamos @douglasvb @dlakelan man, i miss livejournal.
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@MaryAustinBooks @iakobsdesamos @douglasvb @dlakelan man, i miss livejournal.
@rothko @MaryAustinBooks @iakobsdesamos @douglasvb @dlakelan
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Fediverse, the social media system for 40+ year old people who built the world wide web and regret it.
@dlakelan I think we're all here.
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@rothko @MaryAustinBooks @iakobsdesamos @douglasvb @dlakelan
At the very least, Dreamwidth exists. Fork from back when LJ started showing signs of going bad.@pteryx @rothko @MaryAustinBooks @iakobsdesamos @dlakelan I met so many good people on ElJay. It was a tragedy when it went bad and then got sold to Russia.
Remember dead journal? A few friends went over there for a while. What ever happened to that platform?
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@fluffykittycat @MamaLake @dlakelan
It's hard to "pay attention" to what's been claimed by link rot, pulled behind paywalls or login-walls, moved to Discord for a false sense of "safety", deleted out of fear of being scraped by "AI" crawlers, DDoSed by "AI" scrapers, downranked by search engines (yes, I know about Marginalia Search), and/or buried in piles of SEO slop counterfeit pages.It used to be trivial to *find new non-corporate webpages*.
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@douglasvb @MaryAustinBooks @iakobsdesamos @dlakelan and with https://marginalia-search.com/ you can find it again. It's so beautiful and strange to see the old web again
@aleksimanninen @douglasvb @MaryAustinBooks @iakobsdesamos @dlakelan Marginalia Search is cool! One of its paradoxes is that it appears to respect sites that reject crawlers and bots (ex: jwz.org) -- so many traditional websites that are still actively maintained may be opaque to it, as their admins try to stem the bot onslaught.
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RE: https://dice.camp/@pteryx/117368247487117847
@joshisanonymous @dlakelan
That's part of it, but not all of it. Other parts are more active poisoning, or entropy outstripping the ability to rebuild. -
Fediverse, the social media system for 40+ year old people who built the world wide web and regret it.
@dlakelan I cofounded an ISP in 1996. I am really sorry.
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@douglasvb @dlakelan
Campfires@GhostOnTheHalfShell @douglasvb @dlakelan
& stone tablets
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@pteryx @rothko @MaryAustinBooks @iakobsdesamos @dlakelan I met so many good people on ElJay. It was a tragedy when it went bad and then got sold to Russia.
Remember dead journal? A few friends went over there for a while. What ever happened to that platform?
@douglasvb @pteryx @MaryAustinBooks @iakobsdesamos @dlakelan i dunno about deadjournal; i ported everything to dreamwidth before deleting my LJ. early adopter, 4-digit user number.... but yeah. russia was the last straw.
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@aleksimanninen @douglasvb @MaryAustinBooks @iakobsdesamos @dlakelan Marginalia Search is cool! One of its paradoxes is that it appears to respect sites that reject crawlers and bots (ex: jwz.org) -- so many traditional websites that are still actively maintained may be opaque to it, as their admins try to stem the bot onslaught.
@aleksimanninen @douglasvb @MaryAustinBooks @iakobsdesamos @dlakelan now this feels like a Dark Forest hypothesis (if not re: the Fermi paradox), where frontier model bots are the malign intelligences being avoided.
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@meraord @killick @dlakelan
I find light-color-on-dark-color easiest to read on a glowing screen. White-on-black is the take with the strongest contrast, but pale-color-on-black or white-on-very-dark-grey or pale-color-on-very-dark-contrasting-color also works. Didn't much care for pale grey background as a default before.The shift to black-on-white as the default reads to me as part of the corporatization push, an attempt to make the Web look "respectable".
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Fediverse, the social media system for 40+ year old people who built the world wide web and regret it.
@dlakelan How dare you call me out like that!
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Fediverse, the social media system for 40+ year old people who built the world wide web and regret it.
@dlakelan Lol I feel like an alien considering i'm 18 here
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Fediverse, the social media system for 40+ year old people who built the world wide web and regret it.
@dlakelan That tracks.
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@douglasvb @pteryx @MaryAustinBooks @iakobsdesamos @dlakelan i dunno about deadjournal; i ported everything to dreamwidth before deleting my LJ. early adopter, 4-digit user number.... but yeah. russia was the last straw.
@rothko @pteryx @MaryAustinBooks @iakobsdesamos @dlakelan I pulled all of my ElJay content out into an export file that I was able to jam into a WordPress instance later although it's all set to private. So at least I've got an archive somewhere.
I think it was about when Six Apart took over that I stopped posting on ElJay. Then I finally exported my content and deleted everything when the Russian purchase went through and stuff started moving to Russia.
It was great when Live journal was still invite only. You had to know someone who trusted you enough with one of their very few invite codes to join.
