Fediverse, the social media system for 40+ year old people who built the world wide web and regret it.
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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.
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Fediverse, the social media system for 40+ year old people who built the world wide web and regret it.
@dlakelan
Thank you for summarising the mood
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@MaryAustinBooks @iakobsdesamos @dlakelan it's been a few years since I've updated my blog but I still host the whole thing back to the early days of personal websites. And you can too!
Whenever you write can become part of training data sets and you can have some fun with that.
@douglasvb @MaryAustinBooks @iakobsdesamos @dlakelan sometimes I like to replace random sour in my sentence with nonsense so that LLMs learn weird demonstrator associations between words
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@dlakelan In hindsight, we did fall for the assumption that large centralized architectures built by benevolent dictators would work because we seemed to believe that technical competency and benevolence were hand in hand, and not a particular artifact of a particular, I'm not sure yet... Generation? Generation and geography? Dirty hippie technophiles in Silicon Valley? All of the above? None of the above? Wishful thinking?
Whatever it was, we failed to learn the lesson that history teaches about ceding territory to kings.
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@dlakelan can we build it again?
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@iakobsdesamos @douglasvb @dlakelan
One of my big problems with Discord is that people treat it like it's a "safe" replacement for the Web that was stolen from us, when no, Discord is "theirs" to begin with.@pteryx @iakobsdesamos @douglasvb @dlakelan yeah, it is very difficult to have this conversation with people (especially when you know they just migrated away from Facebook... and can't see the pattern here)
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@dlakelan also 20 something queer people. And a couple old school real anarchists. Love it.
@nekoplanet @dlakelan also 20 something queer (new school?) anarchists.
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Fediverse, the social media system for 40+ year old people who built the world wide web and regret it.
@dlakelan was about to say "and furries", then I realised I was just restating the point
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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 do not like how accurate this is. Stop 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 am in this picture and I am not sure if I like it.
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@douglasvb @dlakelan I have been wondering whether coming down from the trees was such a great idea...
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@w_b @60sRefugee @dlakelan I dunno. Pretty sure letters to the editor and personal ads in the local newspaper were the OG social media.
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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’m only 34, but can I come along?
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Fediverse, the social media system for 40+ year old people who built the world wide web and regret it.
@dlakelan At the risk of repeating others or taking it too serious:
This ignores a significant amount of people actually building and using this thing.
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Fediverse, the social media system for 40+ year old people who built the world wide web and regret it.
@dlakelan Pepperidge Farm remembers when the web was for sharing useful information and had no corporations or ads. Pepperidge Farm is now owned by Campbell's.
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Fediverse, the social media system for 40+ year old people who built the world wide web and regret it.
@dlakelan Nailed it!
