Gregory's Server
@ploum This is snarky and funny but it ignores the fact that for thirty years an awful lot of us enjoyed a huge amount of internet-mediated sociality that was superior or usefully supplementary (for whatever reasons) to the social opportunities available to us in meatspace. It's funny to say "go outside and talk to people again" but a lot of us had reasons that wasn't working so well and now we are decades older so it's even harder. The loss is real and not genuinely a cause for celebration.
@ErosBlog @ploum
I fit that mold. I'm a blind guy who has been online since 1993. I cannot describe in words how much my life changed after discovering plaintext communication over computer networks. Whole new worlds opened up for me that had previously been closed, and since the net at the time was mostly text, I was as capable of communicating as anyone else. I had found a "great equalizer".
I do appreciate the snark for what it is. People like me will keep on making our computer-mediated communities, in spite of whatever big tech is doing.
@ErosBlog @ploum
I fit that mold. I'm a blind guy who has been online since 1993. I cannot describe in words how much my life changed after discovering plaintext communication over computer networks. Whole new worlds opened up for me that had previously been closed, and since the net at the time was mostly text, I was as capable of communicating as anyone else. I had found a "great equalizer".