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Daniel Lakeland @dlakelan@mastodon.sdf.org
Fediverse, the social media system for 40+ year old people who built the world wide web and regret it.
Oct 01, 2026, 11:32 PM
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Im sorry but I did not contribute to this in any meaningful way.
People on here think too highly of themselves and the Fediverse. The overwhelming majority of people here don’t know the basics of programming and of the few that do, the vast majority of them don’t make any contributions. Even to those who do contribute, comparing themselves or the Fediverse WWW and the people who built it rather arrogant, no?
At the end of the day, the Fediverse would be better off going through a reality check. It’s a niche alternative to mainstream social media that trades content for privacy. The tech is neat and the idea behind it is noble, but that’s about it. It’s not going to revolutionize the internet any time soon.
Yes, bow to me, the grand architect of geocities Dragon Ball Z pages.
Never thought I would say we need to decentralize the Internet
I personally blame the iPhone. Shit all started going downhill from then
for 40+ people who built the WWW then sold it to the enshitifiers, which they now regret
Fuck that. I don’t regret it. We built the world wide web from nothing for everyone and had it fucking stolen by rich assholes who put our community resources WE developed behind ads and paywalls. Unlike those uncreative hacks we have the talent to take it back.
In our defense, corporations ruined the world wide web. It still has so much potential if they weren’t involved.
Hell yeah, my geocities Nine Inch Nails fan site helped build the Internet
I would like to deny this, but I can’t.
It was supposed to make everything better, we were sure of it.
We were horribly wrong. Sorry.
well I feel seen
Mario teaches typing and the Oregon Trail on 5.2499" disks were just a dream.





