Waning… you could be referring to the rest of vapid mainstream socials… and I agree that’s waning or already lost, but I have great faith in the Fediverse. You do not?
Yeah… seeing in the century time frame… I’m barely able to fathom six months or a year. I can see Lemmy growing at its current rate for a decade without becoming dog shit for certain.
There is a percentage of the mainstream getting fed up with dogshit. They are sniffing around.
Somehow you are making me feel more responsible for supporting this instance… how much are people donating?
I realize that was not your intention… and I don’t really use this place that much… but I am heartened by the thoughtfulness and generosity of the people that will share an old thread like this… Like… I don’t know you but I like your thinking. I often feel that I have a lot to learn from the folks here.
Do you go back to the system of interconnected BBS systems that allowed you to have a friend a thousand miles away and you could send emails back and forth? And play space trader? This is how far I go back. Pre-aol
And like many of our fellow Lemmings, I want to envision a society that values human beings and puts people before profits.
I have been pushing back against enshitification for as long as I can remember.
You remember Web 1997 — that was the peak. Obviously we needed Wikipedia, so we can go as far forward as its birth but that overlaps with the corporatizing of the internet…
So what’s an old timer like me doing around here? Learning. Meeting cool people. Feeling like I’m doing one small act of resistance in a world that wants to turn everyone into this Matrix batteries.
So… I feel a lot of the time it’s me against the goddamn tech.
Case in point: two factor.
It’s another layer… another thing that can go wrong.
Had to upgrade my 2014 laptop and got a machine with finger print blah blah blah.
I refuse to use it.
The machine fights me via browsers.
I finally have to use incognito mode on almost every browser I open or I can’t get into my employers platform to do my fucking work.
I’m here to be around people who don’t like to be bullied by faceless megaliths.
And just the random cool people who will pursue a cool thread.
Waning… you could be referring to the rest of vapid mainstream socials… and I agree that’s waning or already lost, but I have great faith in the Fediverse. You do not?
deleted by creator
Yeah… seeing in the century time frame… I’m barely able to fathom six months or a year. I can see Lemmy growing at its current rate for a decade without becoming dog shit for certain.
There is a percentage of the mainstream getting fed up with dogshit. They are sniffing around.
deleted by creator
Somehow you are making me feel more responsible for supporting this instance… how much are people donating?
I realize that was not your intention… and I don’t really use this place that much… but I am heartened by the thoughtfulness and generosity of the people that will share an old thread like this… Like… I don’t know you but I like your thinking. I often feel that I have a lot to learn from the folks here.
Do you go back to the system of interconnected BBS systems that allowed you to have a friend a thousand miles away and you could send emails back and forth? And play space trader? This is how far I go back. Pre-aol
deleted by creator
I am a very curious person.
And like many of our fellow Lemmings, I want to envision a society that values human beings and puts people before profits.
I have been pushing back against enshitification for as long as I can remember.
You remember Web 1997 — that was the peak. Obviously we needed Wikipedia, so we can go as far forward as its birth but that overlaps with the corporatizing of the internet…
So what’s an old timer like me doing around here? Learning. Meeting cool people. Feeling like I’m doing one small act of resistance in a world that wants to turn everyone into this Matrix batteries.
So… I feel a lot of the time it’s me against the goddamn tech.
Case in point: two factor.
It’s another layer… another thing that can go wrong.
Had to upgrade my 2014 laptop and got a machine with finger print blah blah blah.
I refuse to use it.
The machine fights me via browsers.
I finally have to use incognito mode on almost every browser I open or I can’t get into my employers platform to do my fucking work.
I’m here to be around people who don’t like to be bullied by faceless megaliths.
And just the random cool people who will pursue a cool thread.