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

[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!

[n3wjack@mastodon.social]

@douglasvb @dlakelan
I explained BBSes today to a 20-something year old today.
He was like WTF.

[maybeimaleo@sfba.social]

@dlakelan I'm warming to Fediverse and Mastodon. Lots of people dabble here, and it takes a long time to find people who are actually engaged with it.

[_chris_real@kolektiva.social]

@dlakelan Now I'm beginning to wonder if the internet can still perform its original function—to keep people communicating after a massive disruption.

It can't keep people communicating NOW. . .

Referring to the whole dueling-realities war we're going through. What good is communicating if you can't trust/believe the reply?

[disorderlyf@todon.eu]

@dlakelan Really wish more than literally one 40+ year old within a reasonable travel distance was on here. I'm tired of explicitly mentioning being a hobbyist programmer and people acting like I'm a stereotypical Amish person for daring to not have a Facebook or Instagram account.

Am I cursed to forever be too distant from the cool people on the internet to hang out IRL?! /hj

[cweickhmann@darmstadt.social]

@dlakelan Hurts and soothes at the same time.

[b_rain@troet.cafe]

@dlakelan I feel seen and a little attacked but in a good way and i feel ambivalent about it.
Also i am glad to see people 40- are here too!