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Before I joined the Fediverse, it felt like the Internet was composed of only 4-5 social media sites and a bunch of corporate news articles, with only a couple of old remnant sites that looked out of place like a historic church in a business district. All of a sudden, though, it feels like people are creating lots of new sites. I've been exploring the other Fediverse sites since then, and playing around with Marginalia.nu/hearing about them from other people, and it seems like the "real" web that we were told about in the 2000s is thriving again, albeit in the shadow of the big sites where 90% of people will never see it.

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[-] slicedcheesegremlin@kbin.social 5 points 1 year ago

Im only 19, but I got a glimpse of it as a kid. It's great that i'm able to experience what this is like for the first time, most of the internet felt so hopeless before.

[-] olrik@kbin.social 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I've been on the Internet since I was 15 so in 1995. I was on ICQ, Usenet and other old technologies. Internet sure has changed a lot since. But I'm excited to be part of the fediverse, it is still in its infancy but I think it will become big. Hopefully not big enough to get riddled with adds or get bought by google or others.

eddit: for the old folks like me: geocities, hotmail and more "recently" digg

[-] coupland@kbin.social 7 points 1 year ago

Have you noticed how many of us old shits there are in the fediverse? It's a disproportionate number. I think many of us miss the freedom and chaos that the internet once was and are looking to recapture the excitement that the internet lost at least a decade ago.

[-] albsen@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

This! Yes, you're absolutely right. Its the new gen that's never seen proper blinking warez sites that have OK buttons floating around so you can't click em... Joking aside, fediverse is awesome.

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