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 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)
@evacide not only that, some of the homes I made myself and crumbled due to my own neglect!
@evacide I started a blog again. This time in my mid/late 40s. This time it's really gonna... ah hell, who am I kidding.
Seventies .. but yeah
@evacide MetaFilter and Mastodon keep me grounded; they remind me of ‘the good old days’
@evacide Shrug. I started my own website and wiki in 2001. It's still goin' strong. My aws bill is about $30 a month.
@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!
