Fediverse, the social media system for 40+ year old people who built the world wide web and regret it.
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@douglasvb @dlakelan don't let capitalism fool you! The web is great, but they stole it from
us!@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. -
Fediverse, the social media system for 40+ year old people who built the world wide web and regret it.
@dlakelan
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Fediverse, the social media system for 40+ year old people who built the world wide web and regret it.
@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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Fediverse, the social media system for 40+ year old people who built the world wide web and regret it.
@dlakelan can we build it again?
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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 don't regret the creastion, I regret that we let the big corps and governments steal it from us.
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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 felt this in my bones while reading...
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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
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Fediverse, the social media system for 40+ year old people who built the world wide web and regret it.
50 and 100%
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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 33!
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@dlakelan I’m 33!
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@dlakelan what about gen z fedi, we've been here since at least 2015 and heavily influenced just about everything
@xerz
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Fediverse, the social media system for 40+ year old people who built the world wide web and regret it.
@dlakelan Idiots are everywhere, there is no escaping them. Even in here.
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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 hate how accurate this is...
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@dlakelan I’m 33!
@Gargron
One of us one of us...its not the age that matters its the vibe.
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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 Heck, even BBS's had FidoNet for sharing packets of updates. And there was listserv. People like to network.
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Fediverse, the social media system for 40+ year old people who built the world wide web and regret it.
@dlakelan in fairness, some of us were just hanging around when it was being built and have regretted not having A Quiet Word
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Fediverse, the social media system for 40+ year old people who built the world wide web and regret it.
@dlakelan "If I wash twenty yearsh younger...I'd be shixty sheven"
Ghenghiz Cohen
Terry Pratchette's discworld -
@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 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!"
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@dlakelan I’m 33!
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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 may have placed a brick or two, but I don't think that really counts as building it.
