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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@TabascoEye @evacide Geocities! So much fandom history lost before it could be archived. I legit cried a little when GC shut down.
@HappyCrow13 @TabascoEye @evacide With a bit of luck, you find your favourites in the Internet Archive: https://archive.org/web/geocities.php
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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 yep. Never felt more burnt by any of them than Twitter.
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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 gotta say, really what @dillo is cooking up; Gemini was/is a good effort for curating communities around text but Dillo provides just enough of a rendering engine to scratch the aesthetic itch, while still being a bona fide web browser, which i think would be helpful in feeling a sense of normalcy as we all move our works and community spaces to federated Wireguard nodes or whatever other underground thing
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I do miss alt.discordia!
@davefischer @evacide
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@noodlemaz A time when yelling at politicians felt fun AND productive
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@evacide fifties here. And same
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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
@gbargoud @ClickyMcTicker IMO the beauty of Twitter was its text searchability and old chronological feed organization, no need for geolocation data. I don't think Mastodon has to /could be what Twitter used to be. But I still miss it
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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 Yep, started on the Big Three as a fledgling (Facebook, Insta, Twitter), then moved to Reddit, then moved to Bluesky, and now I'm fully on the Fediverse.
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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 fresh out of Meta, all services. It's so strange and unusual but now that I'm really distanced I can see how genuinely toxic it had become and the mess it was and had been for a long time contributing to my already fragile sense of well-being.
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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 Honestly, you can reduce the lower end of the range. I'm 34, and I started joining internet communities at age 16 (IRC and a couple forums to start). This still describes my experience. My younger brother would probably say the same for about half of his life too.
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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 this is good imo. Cultural permanence is fundamentally unsustainable and should not be idealized.
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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 Shrug. I started my own website and wiki in 2001. It's still goin' strong. My aws bill is about $30 a month.
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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 MetaFilter and Mastodon keep me grounded; they remind me of ‘the good old days’
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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.
Seventies .. but yeah
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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 started a blog again. This time in my mid/late 40s. This time it's really gonna... ah hell, who am I kidding.
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@krejgo@mojos.eco @mark@tacobelllabs.net @evacide@hachyderm.io Re: Usenet: I went there, I saw, I stayed a while, and I fucked off.
There’s probably a reason Mark did, too. #lang_en
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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 Yep. Very much so.
The only durable stuff is the things that I built with a couple of old friends that we hid away.
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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 not only that, some of the homes I made myself and crumbled due to my own neglect!
