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 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'?
@evacide I'm barely in my 30s and I feel this. Part of why it frustrates the shit out of me how hard it apparently is for people to move services when one enshitifies
@evacide My default Signal notification sound is now the ICQ "Uh-oh!" sound.
@evacide The reason I'm on mastodon.social is because it seems the least "run out of someone's basement with no clear legal structure or succession plan" of all the instances. I want my toots to last a bit!
