As I’ve been posting about #Eurosky I feel it'll be interesting to write on why I worry about digital projects designed to quickly become dominant.
This will be long as I’ve also been meaning to jot it down for myself. I think it will help relay why this is not just someone else’s problem, or “a server you won’t join anyway”.
If you’re Dutch or German it might also make you contemplate your digital life and if for years I had access to your deep thoughts.. ;-)
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The story starts many years ago on the eve of the new millennium. With an internet friend I started an internet forum using his dads university network access.
As most sites then it was themed to discuss a mutual special interest. Let’s say it was about ducks. The software we used came in English but the language we used was Dutch.
For weeks not much happened but then I logged in and saw we were at 75 users. Turns out people on some other forum felt left out and found our place. Fun.
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