<![CDATA[Fediverse, the social media system for 40+ year old people who built the world wide web and regret it.]]>Fediverse, the social media system for 40+ year old people who built the world wide web and regret it.

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/topic/04fedbad-4bb5-47cf-922d-3c795c02637e/fediverse-the-social-media-system-for-40-year-old-people-who-built-the-world-wide-web-and-regret-it.RSS for NodeMon, 05 Oct 2026 19:04:05 GMTThu, 01 Oct 2026 13:32:38 GMT60<![CDATA[Reply to Fediverse, the social media system for 40+ year old people who built the world wide web and regret it. on Fri, 02 Oct 2026 05:58:26 GMT]]>@dlakelan Retirement is overrated.

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.social/users/7adi/statuses/117369779451631325https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.social/users/7adi/statuses/117369779451631325Fri, 02 Oct 2026 05:58:26 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Fediverse, the social media system for 40+ year old people who built the world wide web and regret it. on Fri, 02 Oct 2026 05:44:10 GMT]]>@aleksimanninen @douglasvb @MaryAustinBooks @iakobsdesamos @dlakelan thanks!

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://todon.eu/users/FantasmitaAsex/statuses/117369723303439219https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://todon.eu/users/FantasmitaAsex/statuses/117369723303439219Fri, 02 Oct 2026 05:44:10 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Fediverse, the social media system for 40+ year old people who built the world wide web and regret it. on Fri, 02 Oct 2026 04:51:52 GMT]]>@dlakelan @wendynather I'm 38, can I please be included in this?

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://infosec.exchange/users/Wesche/statuses/117369517662654673https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://infosec.exchange/users/Wesche/statuses/117369517662654673Fri, 02 Oct 2026 04:51:52 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Fediverse, the social media system for 40+ year old people who built the world wide web and regret it. on Fri, 02 Oct 2026 04:01:41 GMT]]>@dlakelan I had put the line "i invented technology, you use" in my profile for a reason.

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://chaos.social/users/lobingera/statuses/117369320313095318https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://chaos.social/users/lobingera/statuses/117369320313095318Fri, 02 Oct 2026 04:01:41 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Fediverse, the social media system for 40+ year old people who built the world wide web and regret it. on Fri, 02 Oct 2026 03:46:05 GMT]]>@dlakelan truth

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://sunny.garden/ap/users/117000299830183660/statuses/117369258999537671https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://sunny.garden/ap/users/117000299830183660/statuses/117369258999537671Fri, 02 Oct 2026 03:46:05 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Fediverse, the social media system for 40+ year old people who built the world wide web and regret it. on Fri, 02 Oct 2026 03:32:20 GMT]]>@ozdreaming @aleksimanninen @MaryAustinBooks @iakobsdesamos @dlakelan now we use tool to feed the bots poisoned data and trap them forever in endless fake pages. What a time to be alive.

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://m.ai6yr.org/users/douglasvb/statuses/117369204914007958https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://m.ai6yr.org/users/douglasvb/statuses/117369204914007958Fri, 02 Oct 2026 03:32:20 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Fediverse, the social media system for 40+ year old people who built the world wide web and regret it. on Fri, 02 Oct 2026 03:31:18 GMT]]>@rothko @pteryx @MaryAustinBooks @iakobsdesamos @dlakelan I pulled all of my ElJay content out into an export file that I was able to jam into a WordPress instance later although it's all set to private. So at least I've got an archive somewhere.

I think it was about when Six Apart took over that I stopped posting on ElJay. Then I finally exported my content and deleted everything when the Russian purchase went through and stuff started moving to Russia.

It was great when Live journal was still invite only. You had to know someone who trusted you enough with one of their very few invite codes to join.

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://m.ai6yr.org/users/douglasvb/statuses/117369200812021782https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://m.ai6yr.org/users/douglasvb/statuses/117369200812021782Fri, 02 Oct 2026 03:31:18 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Fediverse, the social media system for 40+ year old people who built the world wide web and regret it. on Fri, 02 Oct 2026 02:28:43 GMT]]>@dlakelan That tracks.

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://indieweb.social/users/tchambers/statuses/117368954812408092https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://indieweb.social/users/tchambers/statuses/117368954812408092Fri, 02 Oct 2026 02:28:43 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Fediverse, the social media system for 40+ year old people who built the world wide web and regret it. on Fri, 02 Oct 2026 02:08:29 GMT]]>@dlakelan Lol I feel like an alien considering i'm 18 here

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mstdn.azshostedstuff.uk/users/az_1/statuses/01M3X5XGR1Y97RTV97MEXNTNNPhttps://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mstdn.azshostedstuff.uk/users/az_1/statuses/01M3X5XGR1Y97RTV97MEXNTNNPFri, 02 Oct 2026 02:08:29 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Fediverse, the social media system for 40+ year old people who built the world wide web and regret it. on Fri, 02 Oct 2026 01:40:35 GMT]]>@dlakelan How dare you call me out like that! 🤣

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.social/ap/users/116329829924507354/statuses/117368765514923289https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.social/ap/users/116329829924507354/statuses/117368765514923289Fri, 02 Oct 2026 01:40:35 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Fediverse, the social media system for 40+ year old people who built the world wide web and regret it. on Fri, 02 Oct 2026 01:18:13 GMT]]>@meraord @killick @dlakelan
I find light-color-on-dark-color easiest to read on a glowing screen. White-on-black is the take with the strongest contrast, but pale-color-on-black or white-on-very-dark-grey or pale-color-on-very-dark-contrasting-color also works. Didn't much care for pale grey background as a default before.

The shift to black-on-white as the default reads to me as part of the corporatization push, an attempt to make the Web look "respectable".

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://dice.camp/users/pteryx/statuses/117368677532087912https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://dice.camp/users/pteryx/statuses/117368677532087912Fri, 02 Oct 2026 01:18:13 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Fediverse, the social media system for 40+ year old people who built the world wide web and regret it. on Fri, 02 Oct 2026 01:11:18 GMT]]>@aleksimanninen @douglasvb @MaryAustinBooks @iakobsdesamos @dlakelan now this feels like a Dark Forest hypothesis (if not re: the Fermi paradox), where frontier model bots are the malign intelligences being avoided.

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://infosec.exchange/users/ozdreaming/statuses/117368650368555933https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://infosec.exchange/users/ozdreaming/statuses/117368650368555933Fri, 02 Oct 2026 01:11:18 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Fediverse, the social media system for 40+ year old people who built the world wide web and regret it. on Fri, 02 Oct 2026 00:32:14 GMT]]>@douglasvb @pteryx @MaryAustinBooks @iakobsdesamos @dlakelan i dunno about deadjournal; i ported everything to dreamwidth before deleting my LJ. early adopter, 4-digit user number.... but yeah. russia was the last straw.

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://beige.party/users/rothko/statuses/117368496713080856https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://beige.party/users/rothko/statuses/117368496713080856Fri, 02 Oct 2026 00:32:14 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Fediverse, the social media system for 40+ year old people who built the world wide web and regret it. on Fri, 02 Oct 2026 00:09:34 GMT]]>@GhostOnTheHalfShell @douglasvb @dlakelan

& stone tablets

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.social/users/A_Minion/statuses/117368407624045063https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.social/users/A_Minion/statuses/117368407624045063Fri, 02 Oct 2026 00:09:34 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Fediverse, the social media system for 40+ year old people who built the world wide web and regret it. on Thu, 01 Oct 2026 23:59:54 GMT]]>@dlakelan I cofounded an ISP in 1996. I am really sorry.

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://a2mi.social/users/tasharoni/statuses/117368369639905305https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://a2mi.social/users/tasharoni/statuses/117368369639905305Thu, 01 Oct 2026 23:59:54 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Fediverse, the social media system for 40+ year old people who built the world wide web and regret it. on Thu, 01 Oct 2026 23:58:53 GMT]]>RE: https://dice.camp/@pteryx/117368247487117847

@joshisanonymous @dlakelan
That's part of it, but not all of it. Other parts are more active poisoning, or entropy outstripping the ability to rebuild.

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://dice.camp/users/pteryx/statuses/117368365608094379https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://dice.camp/users/pteryx/statuses/117368365608094379Thu, 01 Oct 2026 23:58:53 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Fediverse, the social media system for 40+ year old people who built the world wide web and regret it. on Thu, 01 Oct 2026 23:30:31 GMT]]>@aleksimanninen @douglasvb @MaryAustinBooks @iakobsdesamos @dlakelan Marginalia Search is cool! One of its paradoxes is that it appears to respect sites that reject crawlers and bots (ex: jwz.org) -- so many traditional websites that are still actively maintained may be opaque to it, as their admins try to stem the bot onslaught.

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://infosec.exchange/users/ozdreaming/statuses/117368254047027585https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://infosec.exchange/users/ozdreaming/statuses/117368254047027585Thu, 01 Oct 2026 23:30:31 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Fediverse, the social media system for 40+ year old people who built the world wide web and regret it. on Thu, 01 Oct 2026 23:28:51 GMT]]>@fluffykittycat @MamaLake @dlakelan
It's hard to "pay attention" to what's been claimed by link rot, pulled behind paywalls or login-walls, moved to Discord for a false sense of "safety", deleted out of fear of being scraped by "AI" crawlers, DDoSed by "AI" scrapers, downranked by search engines (yes, I know about Marginalia Search), and/or buried in piles of SEO slop counterfeit pages.

It used to be trivial to *find new non-corporate webpages*.

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://dice.camp/users/pteryx/statuses/117368247487117847https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://dice.camp/users/pteryx/statuses/117368247487117847Thu, 01 Oct 2026 23:28:51 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Fediverse, the social media system for 40+ year old people who built the world wide web and regret it. on Thu, 01 Oct 2026 23:21:04 GMT]]>@pteryx @rothko @MaryAustinBooks @iakobsdesamos @dlakelan I met so many good people on ElJay. It was a tragedy when it went bad and then got sold to Russia.

Remember dead journal? A few friends went over there for a while. What ever happened to that platform?

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://m.ai6yr.org/users/douglasvb/statuses/117368216901857639https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://m.ai6yr.org/users/douglasvb/statuses/117368216901857639Thu, 01 Oct 2026 23:21:04 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Fediverse, the social media system for 40+ year old people who built the world wide web and regret it. on Thu, 01 Oct 2026 23:20:20 GMT]]>@dlakelan I think we're all here.

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://flx.masto.host/users/bosak/statuses/117368214007336163https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://flx.masto.host/users/bosak/statuses/117368214007336163Thu, 01 Oct 2026 23:20:20 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Fediverse, the social media system for 40+ year old people who built the world wide web and regret it. on Thu, 01 Oct 2026 23:18:53 GMT]]>@rothko @MaryAustinBooks @iakobsdesamos @douglasvb @dlakelan
At the very least, Dreamwidth exists. Fork from back when LJ started showing signs of going bad.

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://dice.camp/users/pteryx/statuses/117368208294408776https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://dice.camp/users/pteryx/statuses/117368208294408776Thu, 01 Oct 2026 23:18:53 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Fediverse, the social media system for 40+ year old people who built the world wide web and regret it. on Thu, 01 Oct 2026 23:12:00 GMT]]>@MaryAustinBooks @iakobsdesamos @douglasvb @dlakelan man, i miss livejournal.

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://beige.party/users/rothko/statuses/117368181274882571https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://beige.party/users/rothko/statuses/117368181274882571Thu, 01 Oct 2026 23:12:00 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Fediverse, the social media system for 40+ year old people who built the world wide web and regret it. on Thu, 01 Oct 2026 23:11:38 GMT]]>@pteryx @aoanla @iakobsdesamos @dlakelan same!!!

I am STILL friends with people I met online in the early days of the Internet and I've met about 75% of them in person at least once!

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://m.ai6yr.org/users/douglasvb/statuses/117368179804065252https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://m.ai6yr.org/users/douglasvb/statuses/117368179804065252Thu, 01 Oct 2026 23:11:38 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Fediverse, the social media system for 40+ year old people who built the world wide web and regret it. on Thu, 01 Oct 2026 23:10:04 GMT]]>@douglasvb @dlakelan YES

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://beige.party/users/rothko/statuses/117368173664624964https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://beige.party/users/rothko/statuses/117368173664624964Thu, 01 Oct 2026 23:10:04 GMT