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Daniel Lakeland @dlakelan@mastodon.sdf.org
Fediverse, the social media system for 40+ year old people who built the world wide web and regret it.
Oct 01, 2026, 11:32 PM
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Im sorry but I did not contribute to this in any meaningful way.
People on here think too highly of themselves and the Fediverse. The overwhelming majority of people here don’t know the basics of programming and of the few that do, the vast majority of them don’t make any contributions. Even to those who do contribute, comparing themselves or the Fediverse WWW and the people who built it rather arrogant, no?
At the end of the day, the Fediverse would be better off going through a reality check. It’s a niche alternative to mainstream social media that trades content for privacy. The tech is neat and the idea behind it is noble, but that’s about it. It’s not going to revolutionize the internet any time soon.
The internet itself was once a niche alternative to mainstream knowledge
The way I see it is, that we are all good or even experts at something. The internet is not only about programming alone. The frustration comes from people who 30 years ago spent time discussing and sharing all kinds of knowledge on websites, forums or wikis but now, large corporations charge money to present the same knowledge more conveniently, but not always in the right context
This includes programming, but also gardening, how to ferment cabbage, how to clean a smoking pipe, what to feed guinea pigs.
It is definitely doable, but will take many decades
Never thought I would say we need to decentralize the Internet
Yeah… That shit with ICANN and Autistici kinda raises some red flags now though…
for 40+ people who built the WWW then sold it to the enshitifiers, which they now regret
It was not sold. It was taken/stolen
Fuck that. I don’t regret it. We built the world wide web from nothing for everyone and had it fucking stolen by rich assholes who put our community resources WE developed behind ads and paywalls. Unlike those uncreative hacks we have the talent to take it back.
/fistclench
We exist without skin color, without nationality, without religious bias... and you call us criminals. You build atomic bombs, you wage wars, you murder, cheat, and lie to us and try to make us believe it's for our own good,The bit we should regret is that we let the rich corporates steal it.
In our defense, corporations ruined the world wide web. It still has so much potential if they weren’t involved.
It’s been corporate the entire time. The rise of the www literally fueled a global economic bubble.
Corporations are made of people, and people more broadly let them gain power. That doesn’t seem like a defence, it’s just a description of our failure.
I would like to deny this, but I can’t.
The only thing I wish I could deny is the 40+ part
Hell yeah, my geocities Nine Inch Nails fan site helped build the Internet
Will you join my webring?
Indeed. You were up above it.
But alas, now they are down in it
I had a geocities page all about skateboarding. I’d give you the url, but I neither remember it, nor doubt your phone is wide enough for a url that long
there’s 2 kinds of people on fedi:
40 year olds who remember the good ol days of the interwebs
16 year old queer shitposters who got tired of getting called every slur imaginable on other networks
both are into linux
LGBT40+
I am in my mid-30s i will have you know!
I run Arch, btw.
you forgot the 3rd kind
Russian bots
They’ve got an entire instance!
the 3rd kind is people too toxic for reddit and got banned
I think you meant to say 40 year old queer shitposters
i guess im the 4th kind
I can be a 40 years old queer friendly tired of being called slurs wanting to go back, with a mindset of a 16 year old…
Excuse me, I’m not 40 for a few more years yet tyvm!
I’m a Luddite who discovered this shit inadvertently, and still doesn’t actually understand how any of it works
But you’re correct in that I’m pushing 50
I’m flattered that you think I’m 16 and didn’t just turn double that this month c’:
Where do fifty-something furries fit to this?
In the corner, facing the wall, sweating profusely while they think real hard about their submission/humiliation fetish.
Lawyer: You can’t divorce your wife, just because she’s a bit odd.
Micky: I said, she’s fucking Goofy!
I’m 39, thank you very much.
And 30+ year old people who enjoyed the good times while they lasted and are now nostalgic?
Unfortunately as a younger gen z i need to supplement my Fediversing with traditional social media unless i want to have humor of a previous generation and get obliterated at school. I wish there was a greater variety of people on here
