"The data you have given us is too valuable to let other people freely read it"

"Your web browser is rendering content in a way that we think is morally wrong"

It's just pathetic at this point.

I miss the old internet, hanging out in irc channels, posting in small forums, wasting an afternoon jumping from niche site to niche site, trying to track where you were in a haze of dozens of browser windows.

A set of places, and people. True connection.

But even the modern web held some resemblance of that.

As many friends as I met in weird irc channels and niche forums, I met similar numbers on Twitter.

Now all those warm, welcoming places exist only in the past.

@sarahjamielewis
Different social media exist for different reasons, and for different times. I moved on from facebook years ago, and I've moved on from Twitter to Mastodon. I used to prowl websites, now I join Discord communities. Things will always change, and it's ok to be nostalgic about it. I also wasted time in AOL and ICQ and used ventrilo and teamspeak and powwow an IM etc. :) It's all good, we change