Gregory's Server@ravensview I'm only 47 and it's the Internet I remember. 'course, I've been BBSing since I was 12 so, I'm a bit nerdier than average. ๐
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@smitty I'm 47 as well, but didn't get started on the internet until the mid 90s. Ever since social media got started, it has always felt broken to me. The model was all wrong. Communities need open, free public spaces to congregate in. It's the way we human. I don't mean to sound elitist but... the normies need the internet monoliths and apps to make the internet usable. And that is fine, to an extent. We were using the net in the 90s (and dial up BBS!) and I agree I have never 'got on' with FB/insta/twitter/tiktok What makes me sad is that most users become entrapped by the likes of facebook, and never realise the true power. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/08/facebooks-secret-war-switching-costs  Totally agree with everything you say. It didn't need to end up this way and shouldn't have. Unfortunately, huge swathes are now in those walled gardens, and the longer it goes on, the higher and higher the switching costs become. It's likely to become more common to be baked into hardware and OS. I have no idea how it will play out though. I can't imagine the EU or FCC mandating federation or portability. @jimothy @lisae Iโm not convinced itโs too late. It feels like both Twitter and FB/Meta (the two worst offenders IMHO) are starting to crumble, both for different but similar reasons: clueless leadership. Itโs happened before, that momentum takes a community away from a dominant player, but never a dominant player with such mass. That just means the motivation to move needs more force behind it. It feels like thatโs beginning to happen now. One can hope anyway. |
@smitty @ravensview I almost missed it being 30 years and from a small village, but yeah, the Fedi really feels somewhat like the Internet from my youth. Like... no ad-infested application, no algorithmically manipulated feed, just the raw thing you came to see. And I love it.
Now I just need a Matrix client looking like ICQ 5.1 - including War Sheeps, of course.