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the fediverse is the internet in its most internet state
The Fediverse really seems like the late 90’s/early 00’s internet, before the influx of corporate silo media. So far folks here are more or less ok, and the lack of deliberate ragebait pushing is refreshing.
And I feel good for it. Thanks to all the folks out there who are making it happen
Isn’t that why/how the Internet was created?
Yeah, and then the corpos created platforms to bring the non-neurodivergent people to the internet.
More power to e’m. There’s room for both, mostly… I think.
…HEY,somebody get 'em! They’re thinking! Stop them!
Neurodivergent, certainly. But I also have a sneaking suspicion that a large majority of us are millenials. We’ve gone through this repeatedly in the internet age, changing chat or social platforms. We’re the early adopters and eventually everybody on earth comes to crush it to death and then we rebuild somewhere else.
And for us Gen-X/Gen-Y folks, all the Fediverse needed to do was to say “it’ll be just like the Internet in the 1990s” and we were like “HELL YEAH SIGN ME UP”
Gives me BBS era / Usenet vibes, yesss
you say that but i just saw this post about the Formulars for different kinds of rizz in my time line
I wish this would not have made sense to me, but I think I get what they are trying to say. Enough Internet for today, it makes me feel weird
No. It’s not enough Internet.
It means your one with the Internet.
I for one however wish they had included some some weighted calculations.
Yep! I remember message boards and the glory of bb code, when DMs were called PMs and everyone knew each other’s name.
Eh, there are non neuro divergents as well, there are dozens of us, I tell ya!
Dozens!
No fediverse is the internet. Meta, X etc. are not.
I support your words
Well to be fair, there’s not just neurodivergent people in the Fediverse.
There’s also a bunch of queer people. And furries.
Also neurodivergent queer people, neurodivergent furries, queer furries, and neurodivergent queer furries. Duh.
Isn’t queer technically also neurodivergent?
In other words, all the cool kids.
was this not the intended use?
It’s a very specific subset of neurodivergents, tbh. I don’t see much discussion around typically geeky topics. On Reddit, if I had a fleeting thought or question about a fictional world, I had /r/asksciencefiction. On the fediverse? No such board. The answer to that is “Oh just create it”, but I don’t have the time or the attention span to moderate such a place.
To give you a sense of the workload you’d be signing up for: I’ve modded a half dozen tiny subs for about 2.5 years now. I’ve still never had to take a mod action (knock on wood).
While that may be true, for some of us the simple IDEA of maybe needing to do something in the future that you might mess up is demotivating enough to prevent action. For that reason and many others, I appreciate people like you who make things happen.
Oh yeah for sure. I’m very self-conscious about my social media presence and worry about messing up a lot. I totally get contributing only in the way that makes you feel most comfortable, and I’m glad you’re here.
Create the spaces you want to see, it is very low effort, then put up a post asking for others to help so they can get to it when you are not there. We rarely get problems other than spam here and there, but the small ones are extremely quiet. No one is spamming !orchidaceae@mander.xyz lmao. If you have a team, you can pass it off if you get burnt out and replaced. Do not be afraid! We need a diverse array of mods, do not let us get like Reddit where too many are controlled by a handful of folks. I fully plan on releasing many of mine to a team of more qualified folks when the time comes. :)
no spam, but I am not subscribed. thx!
TBH this disappeared on Reddit too. All my preferred fandom subs are now cesspools, with zero depth in fandom knowledge yet weird, cultish worshipping of the material. Bigger general subs feel like bot farms.
Piefed’s /c/television is 1000x better.
But the best places on the internet for that are probably the TVTropes forums, SpaceBattles, and other “surviving” fiction boards.
Link here
When it comes to “traditionally geeky topics” I might have been looking for that stuff at most other points of my life. And if somebody gets into some dorky lore discussion on here today I might participate.
But for me, and I would wager it’s the same with MANY people on Lemmy, the last decade has made me very much not interested in filling my social interactions with banter about which billion-dollar global brands are the most dank.
As an example, I am still very interested in technology that I can learn about and do things with. I am very much not interested in products from tech companies.
Or in another area, I still have a soft spot for old Star Wars and especially Lucasarts games like TIE Figther and X-Wing Alliance. I will always keep my old copies of those and probably play them every several years. But I don’t even know what Star Wars content is in development right now.
I don’t know probably is more that those of us on here. Don’t place much value on answers to things like that. So yeah, a different subset of neurodivergent people.
(Speech to text my apologies)
Also, I want to change this. I have some fandom/fictions posts in mind…
But my executive dysfunction is taking a toll. Laughs nervously.
Make it and set it up later when you feel like it. :) That’s what I did.
Ever since I discovered this side of the internet, I love it and I’ll never leave it.
Or because we got shadow banned for speaking the truth
Same can be said for X and trumps shithole boards
How so?
They are just as much a microcosm of societal misfit ideologies as this place, thats how
But I’m here, and I’m not neurodiver…ah beans
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It’s because the other internet is ruled by tyrants and pedophiles.
Most probably nepophiles as well. Or just basically sex offenders of all categories.
Wait isn’t nephophile more about liking clouds?
