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 It was actually the over-50s, and more likely the over-60s, who built the www.
When the www first began, the 40s were 10 years old… they were playing with Lego.
Everything that came after the first version of the web is rubbish.
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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 am “only” 39 but I can definitely relate to this.
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@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.
Also also:
“Many were increasingly of the opinion that they’d all made a big mistake in coming down from the trees in the first place. And some said that even the trees had been a bad move, and that no one should ever have left the oceans.”
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Fediverse, the social media system for 40+ year old people who built the world wide web and regret it.
@dlakelan It's weird being the same age as old people.
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@douglasvb @dlakelan Me in the 90's/00's: "Encyclopedias are beholden to the biases of traditional publishing companies and professional editorial boards and therefore inherently flawed. In this comment on a wikipedia article talk page, I will..."
Me now: "No time to talk, I'm too busy hoarding encyclopedia sets from the thrift store as a record of the times before the LLM infopocalypse!"
@sidereal @douglasvb @dlakelan
But #hypertext will replace all your old card system cabinets on a simple very small rusty spinning disc!
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Fediverse, the social media system for 40+ year old people who built the world wide web and regret it.
We should have seen trouble coming when the default website background color switched from gray to white.
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Fediverse, the social media system for 40+ year old people who built the world wide web and regret it.
@dlakelan Don't forget the Millennials and Zoomers who retrospectively agree.
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Fediverse, the social media system for 40+ year old people who built the world wide web and regret it.
@dlakelan also 20 something queer people. And a couple old school real anarchists. Love 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 @skyfaller Why you gotta come at me like that, bro?
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Fediverse, the social media system for 40+ year old people who built the world wide web and regret it.
@dlakelan
Well, I am 50+ and regret letting 40+ doing what they did with the WWW… -
@dlakelan It was actually the over-50s, and more likely the over-60s, who built the www.
When the www first began, the 40s were 10 years old… they were playing with Lego.
Everything that came after the first version of the web is rubbish.
(Stop throwing stones at me, you little rascals! )@LeLutin_SurLeMur @dlakelan not me i was playing doom. (... and legos)
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Fediverse, the social media system for 40+ year old people who built the world wide web and regret it.
Mainly regretting that so many people deliberately decide to become part of the problem and not part of the solution.
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@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 I have been wondering whether coming down from the trees was such a great idea...
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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 have no regrets, although I'd have to say I'm a fellow-traveller more than really a builder of the WWW.
I regret the attention-stealing dynamic amplified by pressures to quickly return profit to capital investment via common stock appreciation, which, as Google found, looks cheap until it's the tail that wags the dog, and controlling the Board of Directors doesn't control the market.
And then there's Facebook. Sigh.
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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 feel seen and I don't like it
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Fediverse, the social media system for 40+ year old people who built the world wide web and regret it.
Speaking of DNA, I do miss the old H2G2 site for similar reasons.
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@dlakelan I may have placed a brick or two, but I don't think that really counts as building it.
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Fediverse, the social media system for 40+ year old people who built the world wide web and regret it.
"We started internet to provide resilient communications in the event of nuclear war.
We used the foundations it provided to build a virtual world.
We evolved into a global community.
We made it free from the constraints of geography or social status.
Unfortunately that meant the arseholes we were all trying to avoid could use it.
And they did use it.
Now it’s all fucked.
Properly fucked.
Sorry about that."
