It has to be controlled otherwise the M5M wouldn't acknowledge that it exists.
Think about it, the MSM has never acknowledge the existence of Fedi, right ? Why ? Because for them, Fedi has no reach or influence. There is no "Talk Radio Host" promoting Fedi anywhere.
Just namedrop the fedi, even casually. What we have is the same as the old wild west internet but without the edgefags putting up shock pics everywhere.
@Thomuu @ChristiJunior @rasterman @TheMadPirate Let's just hope we don't have anything like the Eternal September on Usenet if the Fediverse does become popular. I don't want this place to be filled with Facebook-tier memes and emoji spam.
@TheMadPirate @ChristiJunior @rasterman @Thomuu
2007 was the Eternal September for the World Wide Web.
- https://the-mad-pirate-prints.teemill.com/
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It was in 2009 when those faggot jannies really started cracking down on the use of words like "retard" in a lot of online communities. From there on, the censorship just kept escalating.
I explicitly ban trannies, furries, and so on right out the gate when I run RPGs online now. Zero regrets.
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@ChristiJunior @TheMadPirate @rasterman @Thomuu 2007 saw what was coming. 2010-2012 was when it really went downhill. Digg made some retarded redesign which caused Reddit to become more popular. And since Reddit allowed users to create their own boards, forums started dying. Tumblr became the most popular blogging platform around the same time. And because of those two sites becoming popular, independent and personal websites didn't seem relevant anymore. Now it's all social media pages.
2010 also saw the introduction of HTML5 which allowed idiot web designers to make bloated web pages using nothing but JavaScript and have all the content fade in as you scroll.
The only good thing that came around that time was IRC making a small comeback (mostly through web-clients), but then Discord came along and ruined it.
I very much dislike that as well as other features that make a webpage lag.
I like the simpler ones. Like this place. Imagine if posts faded in as you scroll.
@rasterman @ChristiJunior @TheMadPirate @Thomuu Well depending on the software and front-end your instance is using you could have content fading/sliding in. Luckily, it's optional.
@rasterman @ChristiJunior @TheMadPirate @Thomuu And the worst part of this is that these effects are usually done by JavaScript libraries like jQuery which take too much storage, so everyone just leaches off of Google's servers.
That's another thing I hate about modern web development. These developers can't do shit themselves. They have to use shit from Google, Facebook, Microsoft, etc. Web devs are the fucking worst.
@TheMadPirate @ChristiJunior @rasterman @Thomuu Yeah, and I remember people hating websites that were just a flash application on an otherwise blank webpage because they were bloated, made indexing and bookmarking impossible, made it impossible to render in text-based and mobile browsers, and went against the purpose of a hypertext document. Now every site is like that but with JavaScript and HTML5 instead of flash.
Saying that you are a dev while only knowing ActionScript or JavaScript is like saying you're a dev when you only know Microsoft Word with VB macros.
@TheMadPirate @ChristiJunior @rasterman @Thomuu This makes me wish that we stuck with Gopher. Plain-text can never become bloated. But I bet in that alternate timeline, Flash would've got it's own Gopher item type.
You can't sell text based to the masses. Ergo, you can't convince companies to fund your site. Ergo, it never becomes anything more than a hobbyist project.
That's why don't want Fedi to become massively adopted or popular. Let the Normie's have Twitter and Parker.
@judgedread @ChristiJunior @rasterman It's not like these retards never used the Internet before the iPhone came out though. However, most of them only used it for taxes, trading stocks, and checking the weather. I think social media and video sharing sites showed them that there is a fun side to the Internet besides watching porn and pirating music.
Also, the iPhone didn't really become common place until around 2009-2010. Before that, it was a phone that most people wanted but couldn't have (it was originally only available with AT&T, at least in the US). Hell, when the iPhone first came out, it didn't even have downloadable apps, the defining feature of modern smartphones. It was just an over-glorified iPod that could make phone calls/texts and browse the web shit that even feature phones could do even at the time.
But from what I hear from most zoomers, the iPod Touch was their first personal internet device and allowed them to go on it without their parent's permission or supervision. I feel like this contributed to the influx of children on sites like 4chan around the same time. So, I think the iPod Touch did more damage to the internet even though it is essentially a poor man's iPhone.
