Shoq 🌿Dec 11, 2022

What drove the internet in the 90s and 00s was that it was so cool to be doing good shit with it. Social media was like a giant manure dump all over that culture. We've never recovered.

The Fediverse and the death of Twitter promise a rebirth of that culture, if we don't let the cool kids and a lazy press bury the public in vapid bullshit again.

We wasted 16 goddamn years enduring Facebook and Twitter. In the end, they were both toxic and regressive. Can we please not go back there? Please?

Show threadLon Seidman / Lon.TV ☑️
@shoq I seem to remember Fidonet getting pretty nasty back in the day. It had the nickname “fight o’net.” Humans will be humans irrespective of mediums or platforms.
Dec 11, 2022 at 3:21amWeb
Show threadShoq 🌿Dec 11, 2022
@lonseidman Oh, I'm in no way nostalgic for most of the period. But I was in DC Metro VA during those years, and there were more software and networking startups per city block than automobiles. Everyone was going to be the next PSInet or AOL sensation. The gobbling by Softbank and others was just getting started.