So, apparently younger generations don't have as much generational awareness, because they have access to sooo much more content.
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@noodlemaz @RickiTarr To be fair, it was already in its death knells even before he finished it off. But, that said, yeah, it was a very different place long before that.
Heck, even Facebook once wasn't quite so horrible. There were communities and such on there back before they started obsessing on maximizing tracking every single detail of our every single day to sell to advertisers.
Though, for me, the best social media was absolutely the forums back in the day. Again, So. Many. Trolls. But also so worth it. Most were just straight up actual communities.
Thankfully Mastodon feels a little bit like what all that was. It's not quite the same, but it's really nice.
@nazokiyoubinbou @noodlemaz @RickiTarr Old fogey here, but the internet (and I'm thinking mainly of Usenet) really was better before 1995, with the September that never ended and Cantor and Siegel deploying the first spam-bot.
The Fediverse is better. I know we have work to do, especially on racism, but that was one of the things that was worse. -
@nazokiyoubinbou @noodlemaz @RickiTarr Old fogey here, but the internet (and I'm thinking mainly of Usenet) really was better before 1995, with the September that never ended and Cantor and Siegel deploying the first spam-bot.
The Fediverse is better. I know we have work to do, especially on racism, but that was one of the things that was worse.@rupert @nazokiyoubinbou @RickiTarr it's always worth bearing in mind who we are when we're on the Internet.
I haven't been the target of racism for obvious reasons but misogyny? Hoo boy.
The nineties nerds were (often are) full of that. So yeah, better for some, in some ways. And access was very limited at the start.
