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.
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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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@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)
@aoanla @iakobsdesamos @douglasvb @dlakelan
I'm starting to suspect that the vast majority of people *didn't notice* that for about a decade and a half there, the Net was a public space primarily about things that *weren't* corporate.(Before that it was more restricted-access, after that it had been captured.)
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@randomgeek @dlakelan in an SF accent, "trust us bro" rhymes with "symbiot", so I guess the con was there all along, but. Yeah, same.
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@aoanla @iakobsdesamos @douglasvb @dlakelan
I'm starting to suspect that the vast majority of people *didn't notice* that for about a decade and a half there, the Net was a public space primarily about things that *weren't* corporate.(Before that it was more restricted-access, after that it had been captured.)
@pteryx @aoanla @iakobsdesamos @dlakelan wasn't that an amazing time for humanity?
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@pteryx @aoanla @iakobsdesamos @dlakelan wasn't that an amazing time for humanity?
@douglasvb @aoanla @iakobsdesamos @dlakelan
It was! And it allowed me to actually make friends for once, too! -
@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 YES
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@douglasvb @aoanla @iakobsdesamos @dlakelan
It was! And it allowed me to actually make friends for once, too!@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!
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@iakobsdesamos @douglasvb @dlakelan
I want to cry when I think about the blog and lolcat glory days of the 2000s.@MaryAustinBooks @iakobsdesamos @douglasvb @dlakelan man, i miss livejournal.
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@MaryAustinBooks @iakobsdesamos @douglasvb @dlakelan man, i miss livejournal.
@rothko @MaryAustinBooks @iakobsdesamos @douglasvb @dlakelan
At the very least, Dreamwidth exists. Fork from back when LJ started showing signs of going bad. -
Fediverse, the social media system for 40+ year old people who built the world wide web and regret it.
@dlakelan I think we're all here.
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@rothko @MaryAustinBooks @iakobsdesamos @douglasvb @dlakelan
At the very least, Dreamwidth exists. Fork from back when LJ started showing signs of going bad.@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?
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@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*.
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@douglasvb @MaryAustinBooks @iakobsdesamos @dlakelan and with https://marginalia-search.com/ you can find it again. It's so beautiful and strange to see the old web again
@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.
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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. -
Fediverse, the social media system for 40+ year old people who built the world wide web and regret it.
@dlakelan I cofounded an ISP in 1996. I am really sorry.
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@douglasvb @dlakelan
Campfires@GhostOnTheHalfShell @douglasvb @dlakelan
& stone tablets
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@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?
@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.
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@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.
@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.
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@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".
