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Evan Prodromou

We had a few April Fool's jokes on Identi.ca. One year, we launched a few fake social sites like Freelicious and Foursqualour, parodies of existing sites at the time.

Another year, everybody on the network took on new accounts spoofing Twitter celebrities of the time. It is one of my fondest memories of the network.

On Wikitravel, we created a travel guide to the fictional island of San Serriffe one year. It was a lot of fun.

wikitravel.org/en/San_Serriffe

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Evan Prodromou

I'm a qualified yes because I don't have the energy recently to do any pranks. But I miss it.

Evan Prodromou

And yeah, I'm aware that the good old days on the Web weren't good for everyone, or even most people.

I know that the Internet culture of the 1990s and 2000s led directly to the surveillance capitalism and misinformation of today's Internet.

Maybe there'll be a time when we can all feel part of this Internet thing together, for real. ✌🏼

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