bows deeply

They did something good-seeming in good faith, and someone else used that, for something evil later on. You would need the power to see into the future, to prevent stuff like that. If we are all to blame for something so indirect, then what does being responsible even mean anymore? That does not mean we should not strive to correct those wrongs, yes. But I do not think it makes you responsible for them either.

Bitches don't know about these significant digits

I mean, that's verifiably false. Most of the ones I follow are in fact building the GUI.

What about us 20 somethings who vaguely remember the good ol days as they were fading away?

I'm talking at the hardware level. We grew up having to build all of our PCs and learned about bus's, SCSI, interrupts, partition tables.

It really is a lot like religion. All the good stuff you can get somewhere else but much of the bad stuff is unique.

God what i would do for Nokias to be viable again. I actually still have my old 6085. Looks brand new, still gets 2 weeks of battery. If it wasn't for banking apps I would still be using that thing

But what made it more accessible and easy to access places like Facebook in the first place? Smart phones.

LGBT40+

Im sorry but I did not contribute to this in any meaningful way.

https://56k.rip/

Software developers are on Mastadon, though. Big time.

It's not Facebook either. The concept of letting too many of "those" people in to quickly and destroying the culture is known as "eternal September" and is from 93-94.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eternal_September

I mean you're technically right, it is possible in theory. However, do you actually think that will be the case? I personally don't see it.

The WWW made vast amounts of information remotely accessible and easy to navigate. Likewise, social media made large scale remote and asynchronous social interaction possible. Even though both took decades to evolve into what they are today, they fundamentally transformed how people access information and connect with one another. That's what makes them revolutionary.

The Fediverse isn't exactly like that. It's a neat piece of tech, but it doesn't exactly solve a problem that couldn't already be solved. You can already communicate with people remotely, build communities, publish content, and interact with people across different platforms. The main thing that the Fediverse is trying to sell people on is decentralization which comes with perks like extra privacy and control, but which is valuable hence why this place has a genuine userbase, but I don't see it going beyond that.

As it stands now the Fediverse is just another platform competing in a sea of other platforms. The Fediverse is already around a decade old, and not much has changed during this time. It was niche a decade ago, and it's still niche now. The spot that it carved in the ecosystem is that of social media alternative that caters to left wing politics and tech bros. Even if it becomes more mainstream, it'll still be viewed as another form of social media rather than something entirely new and different. The Fediverse is most certainly not like the WWW.

The Fediverse in general attracts a lot of tech people compared to elsewhere, but even then, they're still a minority.

Smartphones weren’t really all that popular until 2007, and none of the ones before the iPhone 3G or like the Blackberry’s could really run Facebook all that well. The iPhone never really blew up to the level it’s at now until the 4 arguably, which didn’t come out until 2010 or 2011 (think it was 2010). Facebook had already been pretty infected before then.

Who are all these people comparing the WWW and social media as a concept to the significance of the fediverse? I've never seen it. Lots of people are excited about the concept of a decentralized reddit-like social media, but I've never seen anyone express what you described.

Feels like we're getting annoyed at nothing here honestly.

So then "because of both" - seems legit!! 😜

Upvoting bc using 4chan as the standard picture of health on the Internet is simply too perfect!!

Uhhh excuse you, you create the meaningful content!

Says you

BITCH I EAT PEOPLE

I thought I was alone!

https://github.com/brianary/

Eek

Sorry that was rude. I just like your posts. You're an essential part of the fediverse and I hope you make more 🌷

The first version was released in 1991.

How do I get around this then? I still have to disable vpn to comment.

Oo-ooh I use Linux just for kicks, now
I've been using it since 1996, now
Might be larger now, but I use it still