i will hear no slander of Fedi. the average surviving Fedi user is a hardened psycho so dedicated to Posting that they've built their own social network out of rocks and twigs four times by now. when the internet is murdered they'll go back to stickers on light poles and zines at the laundromat
the average Fedi user is very tired and wants to catch up on her rocks and twigs posting bug list and is trying to gas herself up a bit
@vyr I will store shitposts on nfc stickers taped inside public bathrooms
@tay @vyr omfg yes. Also abortion tea recipes, DIY HRT, and idk what else pls
@tay @vyr
Ooh! Portable label printer, spit out Fedi post stickers with qr code linking to the original post.
QB into meatspace.
@vyr hey, Hey! I will leave manga page WIPs at the train station like a champ.

@vyr

I never stopped putting stickers on light poles, so...

@vyr - laundromat zines my beloved, grainy copies of cut and paste using actual paste

@NullNoMore @vyr

I miss zines. The obvious lines from when an image is cut out, pasted onto a sheet of printed words, and then Xeroxed. It showed that someone had passion. I know they're still made and out there in perfect computer printer style, but I've yet to spot any.

@MyWoolyMastadon @vyr - my local library has a shelf of them, to be returned on the honor system. Mostly using computer programs, which is fine! Do you remember the rub-on lines and dots you could apply to paper for shading?
@vyr fuck it, floppy disk sneakernet
@vyr
Hey, I wanna read a laundromat zine. Can I hide a USB of my musicvid in a Geocache?
@vyr fedi users were able to build this in a cave! With a bunch of scraps!
@vyr Whadaya mean, "go back"? Asking for a friend.

@vyr

Some of use still know how to use LISTSERV.

@vyr My fedi is full of ham radio operators, so, yes
@vyr we used to post via text files on a shared Novell NetWare LAN drive and we *liked it*.

@Polychrome used to live with a bunch of people who had an old Mac Plus set up to run TeachText so people could type notes to each other in the living room

a lot of poetry

when it hit the (32k?) editor limit, someone would save the file and start a new one

when the floppy filled up, someone would take it to a slightly newer antique beige Mac with internet access and copy it to a wiki

@Polychrome @vyr I well remember the post-it note app that came with Netware, indeed I helped write a *federation* VAP that linked multiple servers together... what me, old? ๐Ÿ˜
@vyr carving the hobo marks for โ€œbad water, hit the bricksโ€ on instance fence-posts

@vyr

never before has the plight of my people been so beautifully told.

@vyr wait, we should wait for the internet to go bye bye for that? ๐Ÿ™„
@vyr I love this - here's to the hardened psychos of the Fediverse! ๐Ÿ˜

@vyr i used to be sad many of my long time internet friends didnโ€™t migrate here with me, but as time progresses itโ€™s increasingly clear they just donโ€™t have what it takes to be one of us.

Skill issue.

@vyr and when computers finally disintegrate, I'll be laboriously typing shitposts and rants on a Dymo click labeler.
@vyr tbh they'll probably reinvent the internet, but Better (very queer and trans) if that happens
@vyr My girlfriend is already at the stickers on light poles stage.
@vyr i should get one of those booklet staplers to make some zines 
@vyr That's right! And those of us who have been here for a while still remember when we had to walk six miles uphill in the snow just to be able to post!
@vyr The fact that I do those last two things already is kinda funny 
@vyr wait, i might already be there
@vyr follow requested because this post rules
@vyr never read anything so true
@vyr *boosts this while actively slandering the fedi but also making a brand new instance to do so on*
@vyr
Some of my fedi feed is already photos of stickers on light posts.
@vyr
Also posts about where to get zines.
@silvermoon82 this is fragment's deal for example https://chitter.xyz/@fragment
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@vyr we will make it as open as possible to catch a stray reply-guy 9 months later.
@vyr bold of you to assume I'm not colporting zines and sticking stickers aside from the Posting.
@hello i would never assume such a thing. in unrelated news, i just found my thermal sticker printer,
@vyr I'm just getting into linocut, because I don't have space for screen printing. Unrelated, obv
Photocopy Machines: Xerox Flyers, Zines, and Other Art Ephemera

Last weekโ€™s opening of the Brooklyn Museum's exhibition Copy Machine Manifestos: Artists Who Make Zines (closing March 31, 2024) is a reminder of the important role that the photocopy machine played in the creation of new modes of art and art ephemera. While the technology used in copy machines date

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@vyr
sure, "go back to" stickers and zines
@vyr
I've just started on my sticker journey recently, laser printing on polyester stock.
@vyr U forgot sidewalk chalk - that will my medium
@vyr backing up my data to laundromat stickers as we speak