Sarah Jamie Lewis"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.
enmodo ⚛️ 🧬 🇺🇦 🍉@sarahjamielewis when we mention IRC we date ourselves, how many know what a netsplit is without googling it? Ironically now we get corporate manufactured perma-splits, fracturing off giant swaths of humanity into their monitor, controlled, and exploited "social" networks.