evacide2d ago
If you are in your late thirties to mid-forties right now, there is a good chance that you have spent most of your life in a cycle of making some sort of home on the internet only to have it crumble beneath you like chalk and having to start over.
Show threadQuasit2d ago

@evacide

The same is true for people in their '50s and '60s.

Show threadIan Malcolm

@Quasit

Yep. In my 50s, but still most definitely true.

The one ye olde point of online stability/home still (somehow) for me is a forum I've been on since 2002, which against the odds is still active.

Hopefully the Fediverse will be for life too though.

@evacide

May 12 at 2:33amWeb
Show threadQuasit2d ago

@imalcolm @evacide

Same here. I go back to the days of Usenet in the mid-1980s. I couldn't even tell you all the different online forums I've belonged to after that. Well, even back in the '80s there were email lists, too.

There were lots of BBSes, LiveJournal, a blog I started in the early days of my RPG site, Facebook 🤮, DreamWidth, Reddit, and I can't even remember how many other social media sites. They all basically turned fascist and had very toxic environments, except for DreamWidth and Mastodon.

Show threadIan Malcolm1h ago

@Quasit

I hear you! Was on Usenet for decades, and before that it was BBSs, logging in on a mate's BBC with a 300 baud modem, years before I could afford my own computer. 😂

Email lists! I had actually forgotten about those! 😜

@evacide