ChopApr 11, 2023

By this I’d imagine that @IThinkThereforeIYEM means that one is growing massively and is full of positive energy while the other is well past its prime, losing longtime supporters daily, mostly about the money now, and loaded with Republican influencers.

https://shakedown.social/@IThinkThereforeIYEM/110176905559307079

I Think Therefore I YEM (@[email protected])

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Show threadDan Mielcarz

@chopaganda @IThinkThereforeIYEM honestly at this point I think it is Twitter:Mastodon::AOL Phish Forum:rec.music.phish. Mastodon requires and rmp required at least two brain cells to rub together so it’s going to be a high barrier of entry for some people. But the conversation is going to be much better here.

(Not to mention Twitter/AOL being owned by various levels of idiots and Mastodon/rmp being decentralized and free)

Apr 11, 2023 at 11:29amWeb
Show threadchillwigApr 11, 2023
@mielcarz @chopaganda @IThinkThereforeIYEM ironically rmp was like an open flame war in a way mastophish is definitely not
Show threadChopApr 11, 2023
@chillwig @mielcarz @IThinkThereforeIYEM True. But it’s also still largely the honeymoon period. You know that never lasts forever.
Show threadchillwigApr 11, 2023
@chopaganda @mielcarz @IThinkThereforeIYEM ASCII art comin
Show threadDan MielcarzApr 11, 2023
@chillwig @chopaganda @IThinkThereforeIYEM need @clifff to increase our character limit so we can post the entire Phish.net citation
Show threadMr. CompletelyApr 11, 2023
@chillwig @mielcarz @chopaganda @IThinkThereforeIYEM the clearest way to tell someone was not on usenet in the nineties is if they talk about the civility and intellectual discourse. Rmgd was a constant bloodbath as well by mid 1991
Show threadChopApr 11, 2023

@mrcompletely @chillwig @mielcarz @IThinkThereforeIYEM I think the big difference (from my memory of RMP) is that in the 90s our fighting was largely about music, sports, food, beer, drugs. While we were much ruder and quicker to insult, the stakes were much lower. Like I don’t recall ever fighting about racism, fascism, gay rights, vaccines, etc.

I’m sure there were places where those conversations took place, but it wasn’t in RMP—at least until the SPAM/porn bots took over.

Show threadMr. CompletelyApr 11, 2023
@chopaganda @chillwig @mielcarz @IThinkThereforeIYEM that's a great fucking point
Show threadJosh Apr 11, 2023

@chopaganda @mrcompletely @chillwig @mielcarz @IThinkThereforeIYEM

It wasn’t all wine and roses on RMP. We had a Terri Tickle problem.

Show threadMr. CompletelyApr 11, 2023

@Nolasox @chopaganda @chillwig @mielcarz @IThinkThereforeIYEM that was pretty next level

the best thing about the early internet from a tour kid perspective is that the cops weren't on it. There was quite a bit of wholesale untaxed commodity business happening under a thin veneer of "tape trading" code (in addition to the actual tape trading of course)

or so I heard. from, uh, a guy

Show threadChopApr 11, 2023

@mrcompletely @Nolasox @chillwig @mielcarz @IThinkThereforeIYEM Of course during the same time period, people were thrown in jail for smoking joints, toweling hotel doors, and driving around with a zip of weed in the car was a high pressure situation.

Crazy how far most of the US has come on weed laws.

Show threadMr. CompletelyApr 11, 2023
@chopaganda @Nolasox @chillwig @mielcarz @IThinkThereforeIYEM on the GD side, this was all playing out in the context of Operation Dead End, the DEA effort to take down the tour based networks. My understanding is that didn't start troubling Phish land until that one guy started bringing weight and dark vibes over from Dead tour in 94/95, followed by others, but that was the era I was living the Eugene woods hippy life and was out of all of that turmoil
Show threadlostmyshapeApr 11, 2023
@Nolasox @chopaganda @mrcompletely @chillwig @mielcarz @IThinkThereforeIYEM very true, but that was some funny shit.