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

[publicwondering@mastodon.me.uk]

@douglasvb @dlakelan I have been wondering whether coming down from the trees was such a great idea...

[jmeowmeow@hachyderm.io]

@dlakelan I have no regrets, although I'd have to say I'm a fellow-traveller more than really a builder of the WWW.

I regret the attention-stealing dynamic amplified by pressures to quickly return profit to capital investment via common stock appreciation, which, as Google found, looks cheap until it's the tail that wags the dog, and controlling the Board of Directors doesn't control the market.

And then there's Facebook. Sigh.

[borisschapira@framapiaf.org]

@dlakelan I feel seen and I don't like it

[jmeowmeow@hachyderm.io]

@ozeng @dlakelan @APBBlue Hell is Eternal September, when the hockey stick of participants overtakes the percolation rate of inculturation.

[jerrej@mastodon.social]

@dlakelan

Speaking of DNA, I do miss the old H2G2 site for similar reasons.

[ahltorp@mastodon.nu]

@StarkRG @dlakelan We don’t all have to had built everything, you know. That would be silly.

[starkrg@myside-yourside.net]

@ahltorp @dlakelan Sure, but my brick was essentially a geocities page and leaving limewire open to continue uploading stuff.

[lewisworkshop@mastodon.online]

"We started internet to provide resilient communications in the event of nuclear war.

We used the foundations it provided to build a virtual world.

We evolved into a global community.

We made it free from the constraints of geography or social status.

Unfortunately that meant the arseholes we were all trying to avoid could use it.

And they did use it.

Now it’s all fucked.

Properly fucked.

Sorry about that."

[l0tta@tldr.nettime.org]

@dlakelan i'm 30 and i regret you built it

[ahltorp@mastodon.nu]

@StarkRG @dlakelan I would say that counts. You don’t have to be working on basic underlying technologies that take 20+ years to be mainstream. Not that I’m bitter.

[darwinwoodka@mastodon.social]

@dlakelan ayup

[viss@mastodon.social]

@dlakelan nailed it

[dlakelan@mastodon.sdf.org]

@jerrej
Here you go

https://youtu.be/4vaN01VLYSQ

@byrnensorg

[necromanticnomad@mastodon.online]

@dlakelan Don't forget the disenheartened 20 somethings searching for a better web...

[anttraxx@kanoa.de]

@dlakelan I'm not that old

[lily@homestead.social]

@dlakelan hey hey watch it! I'm 38! But yes correct.

[nicksilkey@hachyderm.io]

@dlakelan ... and where folks will likely build the next thing. Together. 🫂

[youronly.one@bsky.brid.gy]

I'm #Forever28. I'm safe.

[drohm@drohm.eu]

@dlakelan 40+?
*checks birthdate*
It seems I‘m older than my birthdate says…

[biokistenversteher@mastodon.social]

@dlakelan Best explanation I’ve ever heard!