If you are in your late thirties to mid-forties right now, there is a good chance that you have spent most of your life in a cycle of making some sort of home on the internet only to have it crumble beneath you like chalk and having to start over.
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If you are in your late thirties to mid-forties right now, there is a good chance that you have spent most of your life in a cycle of making some sort of home on the internet only to have it crumble beneath you like chalk and having to start over.
I do miss alt.discordia!
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If you are in your late thirties to mid-forties right now, there is a good chance that you have spent most of your life in a cycle of making some sort of home on the internet only to have it crumble beneath you like chalk and having to start over.
@evacide one platform I haven’t seen in the replies is Xanga. That was a big thing when I was in high school.
I’m glad that data is long gone now!
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@evacide is that old enough to have had a geocities page?
I still kind of feel like the idea that we would all have "homepages" linked together by common interests and spontaneous social networking was one of our better ones. Fediverse is pretty cool too though...@adaroc @evacide We have https://neocities.org/ now! I am still active in IRC, and the Fediverse is a cosy place to be, too. I miss StudiVZ a bit, and these small creative forums for everything.
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@TabascoEye @evacide Geocities! So much fandom history lost before it could be archived. I legit cried a little when GC shut down.
@HappyCrow13 @TabascoEye @evacide With a bit of luck, you find your favourites in the Internet Archive: https://archive.org/web/geocities.php
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If you are in your late thirties to mid-forties right now, there is a good chance that you have spent most of your life in a cycle of making some sort of home on the internet only to have it crumble beneath you like chalk and having to start over.
@evacide yep. Never felt more burnt by any of them than Twitter.
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If you are in your late thirties to mid-forties right now, there is a good chance that you have spent most of your life in a cycle of making some sort of home on the internet only to have it crumble beneath you like chalk and having to start over.
@evacide gotta say, really what @dillo is cooking up; Gemini was/is a good effort for curating communities around text but Dillo provides just enough of a rendering engine to scratch the aesthetic itch, while still being a bona fide web browser, which i think would be helpful in feeling a sense of normalcy as we all move our works and community spaces to federated Wireguard nodes or whatever other underground thing
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I do miss alt.discordia!
@davefischer @evacide
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@noodlemaz A time when yelling at politicians felt fun AND productive
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@evacide fifties here. And same
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@ClickyMcTicker @marielgm @evacide
You kind of get that at a coarse level by joining a geographically local instance if one exists
@gbargoud @ClickyMcTicker IMO the beauty of Twitter was its text searchability and old chronological feed organization, no need for geolocation data. I don't think Mastodon has to /could be what Twitter used to be. But I still miss it
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@evacide i miss the time when my home was irc and usenet
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If you are in your late thirties to mid-forties right now, there is a good chance that you have spent most of your life in a cycle of making some sort of home on the internet only to have it crumble beneath you like chalk and having to start over.
@evacide Yep, started on the Big Three as a fledgling (Facebook, Insta, Twitter), then moved to Reddit, then moved to Bluesky, and now I'm fully on the Fediverse.
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If you are in your late thirties to mid-forties right now, there is a good chance that you have spent most of your life in a cycle of making some sort of home on the internet only to have it crumble beneath you like chalk and having to start over.
@evacide fresh out of Meta, all services. It's so strange and unusual but now that I'm really distanced I can see how genuinely toxic it had become and the mess it was and had been for a long time contributing to my already fragile sense of well-being.
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If you are in your late thirties to mid-forties right now, there is a good chance that you have spent most of your life in a cycle of making some sort of home on the internet only to have it crumble beneath you like chalk and having to start over.
@evacide Honestly, you can reduce the lower end of the range. I'm 34, and I started joining internet communities at age 16 (IRC and a couple forums to start). This still describes my experience. My younger brother would probably say the same for about half of his life too.
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If you are in your late thirties to mid-forties right now, there is a good chance that you have spent most of your life in a cycle of making some sort of home on the internet only to have it crumble beneath you like chalk and having to start over.
@evacide this is good imo. Cultural permanence is fundamentally unsustainable and should not be idealized.
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If you are in your late thirties to mid-forties right now, there is a good chance that you have spent most of your life in a cycle of making some sort of home on the internet only to have it crumble beneath you like chalk and having to start over.
@evacide Shrug. I started my own website and wiki in 2001. It's still goin' strong. My aws bill is about $30 a month.
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If you are in your late thirties to mid-forties right now, there is a good chance that you have spent most of your life in a cycle of making some sort of home on the internet only to have it crumble beneath you like chalk and having to start over.
@evacide MetaFilter and Mastodon keep me grounded; they remind me of ‘the good old days’
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If you are in your late thirties to mid-forties right now, there is a good chance that you have spent most of your life in a cycle of making some sort of home on the internet only to have it crumble beneath you like chalk and having to start over.
Seventies .. but yeah
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If you are in your late thirties to mid-forties right now, there is a good chance that you have spent most of your life in a cycle of making some sort of home on the internet only to have it crumble beneath you like chalk and having to start over.
@evacide I started a blog again. This time in my mid/late 40s. This time it's really gonna... ah hell, who am I kidding.
