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 The “blog” I started in 1997 is still going strong. (Quotes because we used “weblog” for a few years before “blog” was invented.)!
@evacide The modern world is much the same.
@evacide Yet somehow more stable and less contingent than I or most of my friends' offline lives have been over the same timespan.
@evacide Well, here we all are, at any rate.
RE: https://mastodon.social/@gusseting/116560133519730274
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@nihilistnomya your online home turning to shit is hitting all of us.
We're a bunch of digital nomads aren't we
@evacide Been there, done that.
@evacide ultimately brings us here and to self hosting all the things
@evacide that one hurt.
@evacide You didn't have to do me in like that
@evacide multiple times. I even ran my own BBS for a time way back in the days of 14.4k modems and two phone lines.
@evacide In my early 50's and have decided that the only way to win is not to play. :)
@evacide I've been in the same IRC channel for over 20 years but the virtual nomadism is otherwise real
@evacide Worse is that those new platforms somehow get worse.
The game Starsector has a subreddit /starsector and a very active Forum at fractalsoftworks.com.
Which one do you think is better quality wise? Going to reddit to get better at the game is like going to the butcher for vegan recipes. At least the memes are ok
All things beautiful lack permanence
@evacide Not only on the internet
@evacide I feel if you build on sand you should expect it to sink.
@evacide hahahaha, literally there's a whole group of us who met on a nerd comic forum in the late 90's to the 2000's and we're on like our 4th round of making new social accounts and linking back up to each other. 🙃
@evacide Our retirement has been partly funded by a chance meeting on a Compuserve forum.
@evacide or late 50's 😁
@evacide i think this is true of most people who've been online since the early to mid-90s (i'm older than mid-40s and it's true for me, who got online around '92)
