Got my start in the 14.4 days.

I feel seent.

yeah but we didn't build it. we just grew up on it.

there’s 2 kinds of people on fedi:

40 year olds who remember the good ol days of the interwebs

16 year old queer shitposters who got tired of getting called every slur imaginable on other networks

both are into linux

"Enshittification" has a more specific meaning than just "things getting shitty." It's about a product or service being purposefully made worse in order for the company controlling it to extract more profit by means more underhanded and exploitative than just raising the price.

Forum toxicity (sans some algorithm or bot farm egging it on for some nefarious purpose) is categorically a different thing than enshittification.

The Fediverse can't enshittify in its current state because it's not controlled by a corporation. In order for it to happen, it would have to be overwhelmed by federating with Threads or something like that.

That's my people.

That’s fair

I winced.

If by build you mean a Thursday board power user, sure.

The Web. Internet is fine.

I felt my back in this post.

!unix_surrealism@lemmy.sdf.org

Team sport 😬

Shitposts are the cornerstone of the internet.

Wait I'm considered young here even though I'm in my late 30s?

And IRC.

I think mine are the best there is.

Likelihood of teenager.

I do have a problem with objective judgment though

Evidence of self-awareness, personal reflection, and confidence enough to admit personal shortcomings: Definitely not a teenager.

No shame in getting your freak on in telnet chat rooms or NNTP newsgroups.

Uhhh Go Team !!! (insert hey mickey gif) lol

I’m going with cuck porn on this one

one reason I liked reddit was it felt a bit more like alt. rec. newsgroups. the federation of course made it way better.

🥦😎

But not too big a team, it gets ruined once you get too big

you forgot the 3rd kind

Russian bots

Does it count as building the web if I worked manufacturing the AOL disks that plagued everyone's mailbox?

Dw, the corpos are using bots to scrape and categorize your thoughts and comments anyway.

Luckily it is typically too small to be much of a bot target. I don't subscribe to world news subs though, dark places.

Yeah totally! Getting voiced was like being knighted. Hope my homies on DALnet are doing alright.

And MUDs.

You are but a whelpling. Welcome.

Maybe mastodon but the lemmy / piefed / mbin instances seem to be a much younger user base.

Oof. "Porque" is "because" Por qué" is "why". lol

But… yes. :) ¿Por qué no los dos? :)

Same here! The family computer's first modem was 14.4Kbps. The sound of it connecting is burned into my memory.

If we unite, we can regret it again.

Welcome! You certainly don't have to match the stereotypes to fit in around here.

No hablas Espangol

Had no idea this was a thing. I'll get one up tomorrow!

Sorry to say, that was more like the initial wave of enshitification.

I mean, you're fooling yourself if you don't believe Lemmy has been scrapped by a thousand crawlers by now.

That's why we're here. To fu k with the scrapers and poison the training 🙃

Equal access for all is still better than one company controlling access to my content for the purposes of monetization.

we wrote the rules of the internet, and while some were In-jokes about life on 4Chan, a lot of them are just plain truisms. But the language makes Gen Z have the buttpains, so here we are...

That was my first thought. If we believe in ourselves we can fill Lemmy with ads and make it a subscription service and sell everyone's data to the lowest bidder. We can do it!

See senyor

Why'd you have to call me out like that?

The slow creep was real. Social media corporations brought the mainstream to the internet in the worst possible way, but the old internet was still alive in forums and chats and discussion groups that had been around for years.

Reddit destroyed it. It gathered everyone into one place. It was constantly growing and pulled users from everywhere else in the internet to one place. Centralization. Then, it inevitably went corpo to the point that the greed of the ones on top destroyed the communities they gathered and exploited to put themselves in their elevated positions of wealth.

To be clear, the people with the money don’t care at all. They cashed out and got theirs. Everything burns around their greed, no different from oil companies.

The internet was supposed to connect everyone, share ideas, connect the world to collective knowledge, and bring us all together. Instead, it became a tool of corporatist and fascist control. Reddit ultimately ended up being the corpo that crushed and scattered the opposition.

Wow, I couldn't even hold my head up at 14.4 days.

also into linux

Social media corporations brought the mainstream to the internet in the worst possible way

Eloquently said.

A decent chunk of local businesses don’t have a web presence besides Meta products. Meta would love to be “the internet”, they had a project in early 2010’s to give free “internet” in developing countries. The catch, the internet received was restricted to Facebook. It was called out by net neutrality advocates as being very anticompetitive and India rejected the project in 2016. Even a decade ago the zucc had been using underhanded tactics to put as many eyes on his propaganda machines.

Why should some jackass amass as much wealth as a nation state by siphoning pennies from every other interaction on the planet?

Link to BBC article about India rejecting free internet below.

India blocks Zuckerberg's free net app
Published

• 8 February 2016

https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-35522899

… launched in 2013 as Internet.org and was offered in 36 countries - had brought more than 19 million people online …

Thanks glad I'm here

I'm 22 but i kinda like the vibes of here.