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 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.
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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 I miss the days when it was a bit more niche, and nerds had a sort of power over non-nerds.
I miss being able to outrank huge companies just because I was running shit on a private VPS and had SSL before everyone else.
I miss the internet that was a source of obscure facts, rather than non-facts sold as facts.
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@darwinwoodka @evacide Oh, not really, just the internet xD; for that, I’d rather a meteorite hit the Earth hahahahaha
@darwinwoodka @evacide Not so much, man. In that case I prefer meteorites, not viruses, although some anti-vaxxer deserves it
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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 built my own website in 1997 and still have it.
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@evacide And if you’re in your 50’s, that process started on local dial-up bulletin board systems before shifting to the internet…
