Fediverse, the social media system for 40+ year old people who built the world wide web and regret it.
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@sb @dlakelan Intel, Microsoft, NXP Semiconductors, and government contracts were where I worked. All those projects I worked on. All those people I interacted with. Some of that shit was cool. Now? I sit in a guard shack waving people through. And for some reason, I'm more content than ever. It's a boring job, but someone's gatta do it.
@mrgrumpymonkey @dlakelan
Right on!I work at a not-for-profit theatre. It's way better in every respect but pay.
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Fediverse, the social media system for 40+ year old people who built the world wide web and regret it.
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@mrgrumpymonkey @dlakelan
Right on!I work at a not-for-profit theatre. It's way better in every respect but pay.
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Fediverse, the social media system for 40+ year old people who built the world wide web and regret it.
I didn't build a damn thing, but I 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 dont regret anything. I built something to empower people. Some of them used it wisely, some of them didnt. I also built crap that was not useful to anybody. After 25 years i still want to improve "stuff". Users changed and so did I. Time marches on.... -
@_RyekDarkener_ @dlakelan I'm 60+ and sometimes regret having installed the first webserver @ my University and in the town, and having argued for www instead of gopher. Sheesh, youngsters!
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Fediverse, the social media system for 40+ year old people who built the world wide web and regret it.
@dlakelan They're a step behind the nerds on the Gemini BBS who are already bemoaning that the Fediverse has already passed it's own Eternal September.
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Fediverse, the social media system for 40+ year old people who built the world wide web and regret it.
@dlakelan yep
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@dlakelan I’m 33!
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@mrgrumpymonkey @dlakelan
Same. No regrets. -
@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 always thought if I could get my pictures of nekked peoples instantly instead of watching they load one line at a time the internet would be perfect.
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Fediverse, the social media system for 40+ year old people who built the world wide web and regret it.
I must giggle.
In 1983 I sat in college brand new Intro to Comp class and effectively "dabbled in Pong"
I ran away as fast as I could back to the theater.Yes, 1983.
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Fediverse, the social media system for 40+ year old people who built the world wide web and regret it.
@dlakelan just you wait, I'm looking to bring back LambdaMOO!!
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We should have seen trouble coming when the default website background color switched from gray to white.
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@disorderlyf @dlakelan I told a resident, where I work, that I no longer have an Amazon account, and they just rolled their eyes. Expected behavior at this point I suppose. Then there's the folks I tell that I don't use Netflix, or the likes. They ask me how I access that stuff. And I always tell them there's a way, without explicitly saying how. Always get confused looks.
@mrgrumpymonkey @dlakelan The Netflix one is maybe odd to me because I've lived in places where the internet is too slow to stream 720p content without buffering so often it's incomprehensible, and I can still find DVDs and blurays on the shelf at stores.
Amazon less so, but maybe that's because I live on an island, so there's only so much space for brick and mortar stores.
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Fediverse, the social media system for 40+ year old people who built the world wide web and regret it.
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@lnsy_dev @GhostOnTheHalfShell @douglasvb @dlakelan zines on disks. In the mail.
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@mrgrumpymonkey @dlakelan The Netflix one is maybe odd to me because I've lived in places where the internet is too slow to stream 720p content without buffering so often it's incomprehensible, and I can still find DVDs and blurays on the shelf at stores.
Amazon less so, but maybe that's because I live on an island, so there's only so much space for brick and mortar stores.
@disorderlyf @dlakelan As long as there are libraries, media will be accessible to all. As for your living situation, I'd probably still use it, unless there are other retailers willing to ship products. Living in the US gives me access to all those brick and mortar stores. I'm trying to shop locally, as I know I'll get high quality products that way too.
