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Software developers, of all people, should be used to the idea of complex projects not turning out quite the way they envisioned them. We're still building the World Wide Web, and the Fediverse is part of it. I don't even think we can call it a proper 1.0 version until every person has access to it, and we're still quite a ways out from that. After we hit that milestone, there will still be an avalanche of maintenance and QoL improvement work to do. I don't think the Web is something we'll finish building anytime soon, if ever.

But yet still have no idea how they work beneath the GUI. 😉

fediverse is basically internet as god intended.

As per usual, something was used for greed that wasn’t initially meant to. They couldn’t for see it

at 31 i barely caught the tail end of Good Internet Days but i sure fuckin miss it

I mean Facebook, Xitter, Reddit and friends are all but what I’d consider a “healthy platform”, and unfortunately they’re doing great.

Hell, 4chan perfectly fits your description and it’s still around. I think we’ll be fine.

We gave it all to spez by abandoning all the little crappy forums because they were kinda crappy.

That's actually what we IT people [set out to] do... efficient problem solving.

The Disc world Mud is still around

I can be a 40 years old queer friendly tired of being called slurs wanting to go back, with a mindset of a 16 year old...

This exact mechanism is why so many get caught in scams.

Ditto.

sensual pottery scene

Hahaha

sensual pottery scene

Would that be a male or female version?

It was supposed to make everything better, we were sure of it.

We were horribly wrong. Sorry.

Bitch I'm 36 and here on this Lemmy ish to meet the women who will give birth to my first through sixth wives. I have plans for seven onwards. Illuminati shit, y'know? But what I do for the CIA is I easily discredit myself by shaking a loose vestibule of fecal matter from my pant leg before providing education on any number of fun subjects like how MKULTRA was our initial enlightenment program that went and evolved its memetic ass into Star Gate by adding a larger counterintelligence role to the project and this has since and perpetuatively splintered into the modern Anonymous whatchsmacallit or whatever the kids are rizzing their pants about today, and then I follow that completely true series of facts with a rendition of the arts:

8=====D

I make more money than you doing this. Anyways, have a nice day! I have d-tier sex crimes to go boast about. Toodles!

If it's cool, share it!

Scale model building?(tbh havent even looked yet) equivalents to the AskScienceFiction and WhoWouldWin subreddits

lol the first time I was using a computer was on my grandfather’s PC running DOS 2.0 on dual 5” floppy drives.

Now im gonna hear that song in my head all day

Which is nice

We built it first on PHP and later Node.js. It was clear from the start we had no idea what we were doing.

well I feel seen

Lay it out for an old man, because up until about fifteen years ago the only people saying "world wide web" were grannies and corporaphones who couldn't understand what the Internet was.

I dig your rhythms

Mario teaches typing and the Oregon Trail on 5.2499" disks were just a dream.

Turns out what we needed was less access to misinformation.

Sadly, yes.

Don't make the mistake of thinking that age automatically makes one wise, but yes, inexperience does automatically make one naïve.

Since when is not knowing you'll do harm an valid excuse for harm done? We all fail to anticipate sometimes and shouldn't be punished for it, but we should still strive to correct those wrongs.

Look, here’s one now!

Hell yeah, my geocities Nine Inch Nails fan site helped build the Internet

Ok my answer is going to be a little disappointing, but I thought about it for a bit and here's what I can say...

Usually I read a book or I watch a film, I don't think I've ever done both for the same story. Sometimes there is no equivalent book or film, and when there is, I personally just end up choosing whatever format my gut says to try.

If I've imagined a universe and story in my mind (from a book), or had the experience delivered to me (in a film), I don't want them to conflict so I just choose one. Probably because I see so many debates about this online and I'm just like, "nah I'm not getting involved".

I'm actually probably the worst qualified person to give an opinion on that!! But I recognize I'm probably a weirdo, as I don't even watch film trailers or read the synopsis of books before I read/watch them. I just kinda hear about it however that happens, and decide to either skip or jump in. The exception to this being non-fiction or educational stuff, then it matters a bit more.

I guess, I just wanna enjoy (or dislike) a story and leave it at that.

Sorry for the total non-answer. But now you've got me curious, what's your answer? Maybe I'll make an exception for Grandwolf319 haha

No it doesn't. The only active fandom community here is for Star Trek, people quote George Carlin so much that it's made me hate bits I used to find uproarious, and it generally has a curmudgeonly feel to it.

It's Gen X for sure.

Thanks, silly me assumed a word like "enshittification" would just mean "made shitty".

I personally blame the iPhone. Shit all started going downhill from then

Alright I understand the distinction now, although I don't think either kind of degradation creates a worse user experience than the other. I wonder what term will be made up to describe the situation when corporations have spun up their own instances of lemmy etc. and promote them so they attract far more users. Maybe disillusionication?

Will you join my webring?

5.25" you absolute philistine

I'm done with corporations. Fuck them

The two genders of fedi

LOL! This is what the output of a writing prompt, post stroke, looks like!

OMG.. so funny!

In our defense, corporations ruined the world wide web. It still has so much potential if they weren't involved.

Oh I can do that, this woman sits in her chair all day watching right wing youtube and complaining about her failing health. God forbid she take a walk or get a hobby!

thank you for the kind words! now i realize i installed several rooftop wifi antennas for cash in 2005 and the regret is even stronger

I'm gen Z and I like trek

Older gen z here, doing my part

Wrong

67 skibidi rizz

As far as I know my VPN doesn't use Tor but I'm still blocked. It does keep me from commenting 99% of the time, which I've concluded is a good thing, it means I spend less time here, although it sometimes feels bad being a lurker.

Edit: I looked into it and Tor was enabled on that specific VPN profile. Now I can comment while on VPN, which means my only limiter is my own willpower, yikes

I would like to deny this, but I can't.