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 this is good imo. Cultural permanence is fundamentally unsustainable and should not be idealized.
@evacide Honestly, you can reduce the lower end of the range. I'm 34, and I was not on the internet in any community capacity at all until age 16. This still describes my experience. My younger brother would probably say the same.
@evacide fresh out of Meta, all services. It's so strange and unusual but now that I'm really distanced I can see how genuinely toxic it had become and the mess it was and had been for a long time contributing to my already fragile sense of well-being.
@evacide Yep, started on the Big Three as a fledgling (Facebook, Insta, Twitter), then moved to Reddit, then moved to Bluesky, and now I'm fully on the Fediverse.
@evacide gotta say, really what @dillo is cooking up; Gemini was/is a good effort for curating communities around text but Dillo provides just enough of a rendering engine to scratch the aesthetic itch, while still being a bona fide web browser, which i think would be helpful in feeling a sense of normalcy as we all move our works and community spaces to federated Wireguard nodes or whatever other underground thing
@evacide yep. Never felt more burnt by any of them than Twitter.
@evacide one platform I haven’t seen in the replies is Xanga. That was a big thing when I was in high school.
I’m glad that data is long gone now!
I do miss alt.discordia!
@evacide I …hey. Yeah.
30+ years stuck in the rinse cycle
All you needed was CU-SeeMe, a 30 MHz Mac, a greyscale Quickcam, and a 33.6 modem. Text chatting with video. It was produced from 1993-98 and it's use lingered into the early 2000s. Still miss it.
@evacide Happened to my own site after Square bought the host, tripled the price, and removed every feature I used.
@evacide Does 48 still count as 'mid-forties'?
