<![CDATA[Sums up my experience growing up]]>Sums up my experience growing up

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/topic/f2ca568d-0110-4232-a458-8223c9400062/sums-up-my-experience-growing-upRSS for NodeThu, 09 Apr 2026 00:12:37 GMTMon, 23 Mar 2026 00:58:03 GMT60<![CDATA[Reply to Sums up my experience growing up on Mon, 30 Mar 2026 00:39:36 GMT]]>@triptych @ilovecomputers i never stopped feeling the vibe of diy and having your own style, errupting into happiness when sb wrote in your guestbook world. Close, personal and open.
I always hid invisible links to fav stuff in single letters of website text to discover. Presently I have a similar website running for me to find and remember stuff when I need it.

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.social/users/MisterSmith/statuses/116315335986118705https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.social/users/MisterSmith/statuses/116315335986118705Mon, 30 Mar 2026 00:39:36 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Sums up my experience growing up on Sun, 29 Mar 2026 08:42:44 GMT]]>@ilovecomputers been thinking about this a lot. I miss the shear excitement of the discovery of enthusiastic individuals making great sites. Tech giants damaged it. FB killed blogging and forums. Google and Apple pushed everything into their myopic view as the small, enthusiast was pushed out by corporate greed and the fact that ultimately a few geeks decided they knew best. Agree about AI but for me the bigger issue is constant tracking and advertising. We have become commodities. Sure some of the Internet is very useful... but the joy has gone.

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://universeodon.com/users/maxelcat/statuses/116311573409129388https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://universeodon.com/users/maxelcat/statuses/116311573409129388Sun, 29 Mar 2026 08:42:44 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Sums up my experience growing up on Wed, 25 Mar 2026 08:21:32 GMT]]>@ilovecomputers

I know the guy who invented it gave it to us all with good intent and selflessness, but had he kept a la Jimmy Swales and prevented it from being colonized by entities hellbent on making money off it, we'd be better off.

Maybe those companies would have created their own facsimile. That would be fine. Have a profit-driven internet separate from the humanist internet.

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://lingo.lol/ap/users/115645018233576898/statuses/116288840803975758https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://lingo.lol/ap/users/115645018233576898/statuses/116288840803975758Wed, 25 Mar 2026 08:21:32 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Sums up my experience growing up on Wed, 25 Mar 2026 07:34:44 GMT]]>@ilovecomputers You're welcome! I just google an interesting phrase from the post in quote marks and it usually pops up in the first three results. ๐Ÿ™‚

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://eldritch.cafe/users/cassolotl/statuses/116288656802713250https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://eldritch.cafe/users/cassolotl/statuses/116288656802713250Wed, 25 Mar 2026 07:34:44 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Sums up my experience growing up on Wed, 25 Mar 2026 07:03:32 GMT]]>https://eldritch.cafe/@cassolotl/116288484685754164

A big kudos to this person for finding the source

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://xoxo.zone/users/ilovecomputers/statuses/116288534095370042https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://xoxo.zone/users/ilovecomputers/statuses/116288534095370042Wed, 25 Mar 2026 07:03:32 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Sums up my experience growing up on Wed, 25 Mar 2026 07:02:25 GMT]]>@cassolotl TY! Searching for a tumblr post is such an utter pain.

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://xoxo.zone/users/ilovecomputers/statuses/116288529704752565https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://xoxo.zone/users/ilovecomputers/statuses/116288529704752565Wed, 25 Mar 2026 07:02:25 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Sums up my experience growing up on Wed, 25 Mar 2026 07:01:45 GMT]]>@ilovecomputers Such truth. I could have written that ๐Ÿซฃ

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://rollenspiel.social/users/W99/statuses/116288527127677664https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://rollenspiel.social/users/W99/statuses/116288527127677664Wed, 25 Mar 2026 07:01:45 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Sums up my experience growing up on Wed, 25 Mar 2026 06:50:58 GMT]]>@ilovecomputers Source: https://www.tumblr.com/arahir/789435290038190080/i-just-cant-convey-the-frustration-and-sorrow

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://eldritch.cafe/users/cassolotl/statuses/116288484685754164https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://eldritch.cafe/users/cassolotl/statuses/116288484685754164Wed, 25 Mar 2026 06:50:58 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Sums up my experience growing up on Tue, 24 Mar 2026 23:23:39 GMT]]>@ilovecomputers

Itโ€™s almost like you wanna go back to a library. You know, people building stuff they like or create and for local business

It really calls for a municipal utility network that serves the residents of a location of a city or town, that provides Internet access, web posting services and a data center. Librarians would be recruited to provide information services to structure things usefully.

Each city could then federate with other cities to create a larger network.

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://masto.ai/users/GhostOnTheHalfShell/statuses/116286725808067373https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://masto.ai/users/GhostOnTheHalfShell/statuses/116286725808067373Tue, 24 Mar 2026 23:23:39 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Sums up my experience growing up on Tue, 24 Mar 2026 21:42:59 GMT]]>@ilovecomputers
i just canโ€™t convey the frustration and sorrow that itโ€™s been to grow up at first without the internet and then watching it bloom into this useful, fun, connecting force you sometimes spent time on, only for it to degrade into this constant oppressive waste of time and energy where people are constantly pumping out algorithmically designed content for max algorithmic appeal and even the most simple search generates either no results or an unimaginably bad ai generated slop none of which is usable or correct. we briefly had a library of alexandria and then fed it into a paper shredder so advertisers could sell a random mass of pulp back to us at a premium.

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://social.tchncs.de/users/toxomat/statuses/116286329974423713https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://social.tchncs.de/users/toxomat/statuses/116286329974423713Tue, 24 Mar 2026 21:42:59 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Sums up my experience growing up on Tue, 24 Mar 2026 20:39:29 GMT]]>@ilovecomputers Yup. Mine too. The fediverse gives some hope that we might get some of that old vibe back.... But it won't ever be the same.

Geez, I sound old. ๐Ÿซค

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.social/users/courtcan/statuses/116286080267395378https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.social/users/courtcan/statuses/116286080267395378Tue, 24 Mar 2026 20:39:29 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Sums up my experience growing up on Tue, 24 Mar 2026 17:51:08 GMT]]>@bwana @hackillu I think so!

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://front-end.social/users/sarajw/statuses/116285418242764400https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://front-end.social/users/sarajw/statuses/116285418242764400Tue, 24 Mar 2026 17:51:08 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Sums up my experience growing up on Tue, 24 Mar 2026 15:00:16 GMT]]>@sarajw@front-end.social If you are talking about Lemmy, Piefed or Mbin they do require a new account if you want the visual part of it / Logining into them. You can still interact with them from Mastodon through certain methods tho

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://break3.social/notes/ak8b2n5hisqo003ohttps://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://break3.social/notes/ak8b2n5hisqo003oTue, 24 Mar 2026 15:00:16 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Sums up my experience growing up on Tue, 24 Mar 2026 14:56:58 GMT]]>@sarajw @hackillu You mean like ?

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://discordian.social/users/bwana/statuses/116284733438815616https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://discordian.social/users/bwana/statuses/116284733438815616Tue, 24 Mar 2026 14:56:58 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Sums up my experience growing up on Tue, 24 Mar 2026 04:28:11 GMT]]>@hackillu @triptych @ilovecomputers I think some people are working on using the fediverse for "universal" comments for podcasts. That's one of the podcasting 2.0 features I'm looking forwards to. If it ever gets implemented ๐Ÿ™‚

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodontti.fi/users/mutkitta/statuses/116282260949379739https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodontti.fi/users/mutkitta/statuses/116282260949379739Tue, 24 Mar 2026 04:28:11 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Sums up my experience growing up on Mon, 23 Mar 2026 23:17:12 GMT]]>@ilovecomputers This is the experience of the new "Lost Generation".

What's more crazy is knowing how deeply the media we consume shapes and informs us, and thinking about what teens and 20s today are growing up with. X_X

(I guess to be fair... What all of us are continuing to grow up with... But yeah, earlier formative experiences, chances to connect with people who expand your horizon, etc... dang)

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://fursuits.online/users/tkwolf/statuses/116281038095297708https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://fursuits.online/users/tkwolf/statuses/116281038095297708Mon, 23 Mar 2026 23:17:12 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Sums up my experience growing up on Mon, 23 Mar 2026 22:40:24 GMT]]>@shellsharks @mutkitta @triptych @ilovecomputers hum, cool and thanks ๐Ÿ™‡ I've just finished update my website ( https://benjamim.neocities.org )with humans.txt and robots.txt

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://social.vivaldi.net/users/benjamimsilva/statuses/116280893431013151https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://social.vivaldi.net/users/benjamimsilva/statuses/116280893431013151Mon, 23 Mar 2026 22:40:24 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Sums up my experience growing up on Mon, 23 Mar 2026 19:34:30 GMT]]>@ilovecomputers oooooooo

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://defcon.social/users/hell/statuses/116280162398917515https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://defcon.social/users/hell/statuses/116280162398917515Mon, 23 Mar 2026 19:34:30 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Sums up my experience growing up on Mon, 23 Mar 2026 19:31:37 GMT]]>@hell and yesterweb
and indie web
and slow web

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://xoxo.zone/users/ilovecomputers/statuses/116280151089652451https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://xoxo.zone/users/ilovecomputers/statuses/116280151089652451Mon, 23 Mar 2026 19:31:37 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Sums up my experience growing up on Mon, 23 Mar 2026 19:21:57 GMT]]>@ilovecomputers fr. that said - look up web revival ๐Ÿ˜

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://defcon.social/users/hell/statuses/116280113093835139https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://defcon.social/users/hell/statuses/116280113093835139Mon, 23 Mar 2026 19:21:57 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Sums up my experience growing up on Mon, 23 Mar 2026 19:16:28 GMT]]>https://social.lol/@triptych/116276727579512933

To be less of a downer, I want to pin this reply thread on this post as it contains links to indie websites and communities that continue to live on. Itโ€™s not just nostalgia; even amongst the next generation, thereโ€™s growing enthusiasm for slow tech.

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://xoxo.zone/users/ilovecomputers/statuses/116280091534450233https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://xoxo.zone/users/ilovecomputers/statuses/116280091534450233Mon, 23 Mar 2026 19:16:28 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Sums up my experience growing up on Mon, 23 Mar 2026 19:03:01 GMT]]>@ilovecomputers I feel this in every fiber of my being. I weep for every generation that has come after me that they will never know the peace of just getting to be without being tracked, monetized and fed into a perpetual rage machine.

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.social/users/amazing_ces/statuses/116280038594438191https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.social/users/amazing_ces/statuses/116280038594438191Mon, 23 Mar 2026 19:03:01 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Sums up my experience growing up on Mon, 23 Mar 2026 17:16:32 GMT]]>@ilovecomputers

People using their real names and faces
Governments wanting to control it
Corporations flooding it

Just a few things from the top of my head that made it all go to shit
It was certainly a group effort

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://infosec.exchange/users/kallisti/statuses/116279619934514619https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://infosec.exchange/users/kallisti/statuses/116279619934514619Mon, 23 Mar 2026 17:16:32 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Sums up my experience growing up on Mon, 23 Mar 2026 17:09:05 GMT]]>@sarajw @mutkitta @triptych the first issue cover of good internet zine is pretty apt

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://xoxo.zone/users/ilovecomputers/statuses/116279590648353003https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://xoxo.zone/users/ilovecomputers/statuses/116279590648353003Mon, 23 Mar 2026 17:09:05 GMT