Fediverse, the social media system for 40+ year old people who built the world wide web and regret it.

[byrnensorg@mastodon.ie]

@dlakelan "If I wash twenty yearsh younger...I'd be shixty sheven"
Ghenghiz Cohen
Terry Pratchette's discworld

[sidereal@kolektiva.social]

@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!"

[gins@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@Gargron @dlakelan the people building the retirement home are usually younger than the residents

[starkrg@myside-yourside.net]

@dlakelan I may have placed a brick or two, but I don't think that really counts as building it.

[brandonscript@appdot.net]

@dlakelan I am in this demographic I mean toot, and this might be the most accurate description of the fedi.

[muiris@mastodon.ie]

@dlakelan Yep, late 40s and I often find myself thinking I’d like to have the freedom to actually travel to a place that is devoid of cars, corporations, advertising and technology. Natural landscapes and traditional pastimes like music, theatre, painting, dancing and storytelling only, no phones/screens permitted. Constant screen time and information overload has ruined our quality of life.

[sb@metroholografix.ca]

@dlakelan
I'm deeply sorry for ALL of the work I did for fortune 500 companies.

[jerrej@mastodon.social]

@douglasvb @dlakelan

Hello Douglas' namesake!

“We'll be saying a big hello to all intelligent lifeforms everywhere and to everyone else out there, the secret is to bang the rocks together, guys.”

#douglasnoeladams

[shadowdancer@mstdn.social]

@dlakelan
Well I'm 40+ but can't really take credit for building the www. Unless, ofc, you count all those nights spent on IRC shootin' the shit back in the day.

Good times.

[jerrej@mastodon.social]

@byrnensorg @dlakelan

Got any shoup?

[lelutin_surlemur@mastodon.social]

@dlakelan It was actually the over-50s, and more likely the over-60s, who built the www.
When the www first began, the 40s were 10 years old… they were playing with Lego.
Everything that came after the first version of the web is rubbish.
(Stop throwing stones at me, you little rascals! )

[alex@social.alexhyett.com]

@dlakelan I am “only” 39 but I can definitely relate to this.

[jerrej@mastodon.social]

@douglasvb @dlakelan

Also also:

“Many were increasingly of the opinion that they’d all made a big mistake in coming down from the trees in the first place. And some said that even the trees had been a bad move, and that no one should ever have left the oceans.”

#douglasnoeladams #mistake

[jjbuchholz@norden.social]

@dlakelan It's weird being the same age as old people.

[jerrej@mastodon.social]

@sidereal @douglasvb @dlakelan

But #hypertext will replace all your old card system cabinets on a simple very small rusty spinning disc!

[killick@dmv.community]

@dlakelan

We should have seen trouble coming when the default website background color switched from gray to white.

[joenepraat@todon.nl]

@dlakelan Don't forget the Millennials and Zoomers who retrospectively agree.

[nekoplanet@mastodon.social]

@dlakelan also 20 something queer people. And a couple old school real anarchists. Love it.

[donutage@jawns.club]

@dlakelan @skyfaller Why you gotta come at me like that, bro?

[dupdob@piaille.fr]

@dlakelan
Well, I am 50+ and regret letting 40+ doing what they did with the WWW…