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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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 Back in the 90s I found a web host that offered PHP+MySQL without any forced ad banners (!) on their free tier. Good times. The web archive still has some remnants of my old site from those years. 🥲
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@evacide it's true but then we built it on the sand of private billionaire beaches, that's on us, maybe we let the sea take it all and start again on firmer freer ground.
@zoneghost @evacide
I would love this. How do we do this without being billionaires or nation states ourselves? To my mind, the only way to accomplish this is to seize the means of production. -
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 There were a group of us who formed around the Looking Good forum on the Television Without Pity website in the 00s. When that site jettisoned those forums, we moved to a new forum site. Then that site was bought by someone else before shutting down. These days we still see each other on various social media platforms, but we don’t have the “home” we used to, just a Facebook group.
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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 A global DDoS attack – and let the internet go to hell xD– just kidding, but it’s tempting
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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 don't remember agreeing to you posting about me
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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 stop it you're hurting me! Yeah I got sick of it, finally started self hosting my own website and I'm trialling my own instance of masto (actually, hometown) vs Forte to see which I like more. Now I just need my IRL friends to get in on it.. this is literally the first thing I started writing about on my website https://amfernee.com/2026/04/08/where-is-social-media-going/
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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 100% why I have a single-user instance on the Fediverse now.
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@TerpEE93 I started on MUDs and Usenet.
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@evacide mIRC, geocities, ICQ, myspace, wordpress blogs, Google Wave, twitter, clubhouse, ... Just what comes to mind right away 🥲
@TabascoEye @evacide Geocities! So much fandom history lost before it could be archived. I legit cried a little when GC shut down.
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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 everything breaks, except irc
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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.
I'm in my late 60s and it's like that ;^)
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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 prefer the analogy of a hermit crab. As I grow in knowledge and awareness I need to seek a more spacious home with room to move.
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@evacide A global DDoS attack – and let the internet go to hell xD– just kidding, but it’s tempting
Snowcrash sounds pretty good now huh
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@evacide @sstephenson as always we poor Gen Xers get overlooked
[goes off to fiddle with my gopher site]
@thomasfuchs sure grandpa, let’s get you to bed
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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@hachyderm.io i’m not even 25 and i’ve swapped around like 4 times
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@evacide usenet (which probably betrays my age)
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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 miss the days before the internet
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Snowcrash sounds pretty good now huh
@darwinwoodka @evacide Oh, not really, just the internet xD; for that, I’d rather a meteorite hit the Earth hahahahaha
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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 reply thread is one bucket of people being sad about our lost communities, and another bucket of people being righteous about lost audiences and capitalism, and i don't think the people in the buckets realize they're talking about different things
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@evacide There was a shooting more or less in my vicinity today. My first reaction was to long for the days when a simple text search on Twitter would have been enough to figure what was going on.
