I remember coming home from school, and immediately going on to MSN. The silly gifs were so entertaining back then, and it was very cool to have a gif for each letter - like the letter A in flames LOL. I also used to love Club Penguin and ToonTown. Going into those type of cyberworlds felt pretty magical to me back then :)
Ever since I read this blog post, The Indie Web for Everyone, I can’t stop thinking about this quote when thinking about fediverse:
It’s like everyone has spent the last few years in a giant all-inclusive resort, screaming at each other for attention at the buffet. Now we’re moving into nice little bed-and-breakfast places, but we’re complaining because it takes slightly more effort to book a room, and the free WIFI isn’t as fast. Maybe its time to rethink some of these expectations. Maybe we need some of that early internet vibe back and be ok with smaller, closer communities. Maybe we can even get some of the fun back and start exploring again, instead of expecting everything to be automatically delivered to us in real time.
I think you are right, as much as fediverse is an alternative to the current social media, by its design it requires a completely different culture than how the general public has became used to interacting with the web - as a commodity.
Thank you so much for running the Taylor Swift & popheads community here!! It was one of your other comments somewhere that really inspired me start posting and commenting around the fediverse. It does take work to cultivate a community, which I have taken for granted being just a lurker in reddit/in general.
omg I used to spend hours on kidpix
This is a wonderful comment!! Before coming into fediverse, I got so excited learning about local wikis, which grew from a wiki for the city of Davis. I am actually so sad that these local wikis didn’t grew to be popular, but the vision of having a hyper local wiki that houses general history, news, establishment reviews, local college/university advice etc. all in a wiki format is just amazing in my opinion!! I even saw people starting up a student club that moderates the wiki, and people had hosted edit-a-thon nights :) Hosting a university fediverse instance is perfect for a student club - clubs usually get a bit of funding each term, which could be used for hosting expenses, and the mods etc can be the exec members of the club!
Yes me too! Gotta love hypertext personal wikis /digital gardens 🌱
Oh wow. This takes me back to when this album came out and everyone was so hyped about it :)
I’ve recently came across SRSLY Wrong after Cory Doctorow shared about their Library Socialism 3 part series.
It has no ads, but they have several sketches that are parody ads that relate to the topics they discuss each episode.
Thank you for hosting and for all your work! I am excited to see this community grow. I have already seen a couple of posts on Canadian reddit communities where people name dropped lemmy.ca. It’d be interesting to maybe do a census once the signups stabilize to see how much the demographic changed. (I saw that there was one made in 2023).