@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.
@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.
@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.