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.
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@evacide @LabSpokane The key is to not make a home in property you don't own. 🤷🏼♀️
@evacide cringy it may sounds but since the BBS days I've always felt like a 'digital nomad', purely people you like to hang around, don't always want to stay together for long periods of time.
in the past i hosted my own BBS and echomailing network to get some 'stability' to my online circles. but in 2026, it would require non-trivial $ to host due to the sheer scale and noise in feeds.
sometimes everyone gets off the bus except you, maybe new passengers will come along for the ride, or maybe you'll drive alone into the sunset... it's important to enjoy the journey, not the destination.
I guess.
@evacide two of the forums that I basically grew up on are still going, but the one that was very much my first internet home had some very vocal alt-right folks that the admins refused to ban, so I stopped visiting around 2016. Tried to go back a few months ago only to find some long-time members basically cheering on the Gaza genocide, so decided it could fuck off into the sun forever.
@evacide oh, yeah, sure. So, are we just being goth about the past or do we wanna burn the networks and take everything we're owed? I'm down either way.
@evacide multiple times. It’s almost like profit-driven things aren’t supposed to exist.
@evacide I've been through a few, especially on chat clients, but the Twitter diaspora was a big one for me. I'm glad Mastodon is seemingly immune to platform killing stupidity like that.
@evacide I've never thought of it this way but it's definitely true. Long dead niche forums, MMOs, etc.
@evacide Why the age restriction? Some of us started with Usenet and/or bulletin boards ... and some decades earlier with amateur radio.
@evacide
I just realized the internet is a sand castle.
50s and 60s, over and over.
@evacide shameless-self-advertisement: We exist as a forum for 26 years, and we're definitely aiming for a few more anniversaries :).
But yes, we've seen other forums come and go, and it's a shame to see a community vanish :(.
@evacide and me just ambling about the web... homelessly.
@evacide I built my own website in 1997 and still have it.
@evacide I miss the days before the internet
I'm in my late 60s and it's like that ;^)
