Fediverse, the social media system for 40+ year old people who built the world wide web and regret it.
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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 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.
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@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.
@ozdreaming @aleksimanninen @MaryAustinBooks @iakobsdesamos @dlakelan now we use tool to feed the bots poisoned data and trap them forever in endless fake pages. What a time to be alive.
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Fediverse, the social media system for 40+ year old people who built the world wide web and regret it.
@dlakelan truth
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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 had put the line "i invented technology, you use" in my profile for a reason.
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Fediverse, the social media system for 40+ year old people who built the world wide web and regret it.
@dlakelan @wendynather I'm 38, can I please be included in this?
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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
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Fediverse, the social media system for 40+ year old people who built the world wide web and regret it.
@dlakelan Retirement is overrated.
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