"The data you have given us is too valuable to let other people freely read it"
"Your web browser is rendering content in a way that we think is morally wrong"
It's just pathetic at this point.
I miss the old internet, hanging out in irc channels, posting in small forums, wasting an afternoon jumping from niche site to niche site, trying to track where you were in a haze of dozens of browser windows.
A set of places, and people. True connection.
But even the modern web held some resemblance of that.
As many friends as I met in weird irc channels and niche forums, I met similar numbers on Twitter.
Now all those warm, welcoming places exist only in the past.
Part of me hopes we can recapture some of that...but I fear those days are gone. They were a beautiful bubble destined to pop.
Where once stood a diverse sprawling forest filled with mysteries now stands a managed woodland. Same raw materials, an entirely different experience.
We are not the same world. We are not the same people. Our relationship to this thing has changed.
@sarahjamielewis meanwhile the kids are hanging out in some weird Bluetooth mesh social network where the Corps can't see
@falken @sarahjamielewis We don't talk about Br/iar where the cops can hear, and all public social networks are cops
@Almafeta @sarahjamielewis you wanna name names, feel free :-)
@falken @sarahjamielewis interesting, I didn't know this was a thing. I found a few apps meant to chat with nearby people when there is no Internet connection. Useful at mass events where Internet is unusable.