I remember coming home from school, and immediately going on to MSN. The silly gifs were so entertaining back then, and it was very cool to have a gif for each letter - like the letter A in flames LOL. I also used to love Club Penguin and ToonTown. Going into those type of cyberworlds felt pretty magical to me back then :)
Ever since I read this blog post, The Indie Web for Everyone, I can’t stop thinking about this quote when thinking about fediverse:
It’s like everyone has spent the last few years in a giant all-inclusive resort, screaming at each other for attention at the buffet. Now we’re moving into nice little bed-and-breakfast places, but we’re complaining because it takes slightly more effort to book a room, and the free WIFI isn’t as fast. Maybe its time to rethink some of these expectations. Maybe we need some of that early internet vibe back and be ok with smaller, closer communities. Maybe we can even get some of the fun back and start exploring again, instead of expecting everything to be automatically delivered to us in real time.
I think you are right, as much as fediverse is an alternative to the current social media, by its design it requires a completely different culture than how the general public has became used to interacting with the web - as a commodity.
I’ll never forget opening this one up without looking up anything and thinking it was going to be a historical drama lmao
The Brutalist! I enjoyed it, and it didn’t feel like 3.5 hrs. I’d recommend watching it at a theater for sure. Thought it was a real story until I looked it up LOL
Thank you so much for running the Taylor Swift & popheads community here!! It was one of your other comments somewhere that really inspired me start posting and commenting around the fediverse. It does take work to cultivate a community, which I have taken for granted being just a lurker in reddit/in general.
omg I used to spend hours on kidpix
Yes me too! Gotta love hypertext personal wikis /digital gardens 🌱
Oh wow. This takes me back to when this album came out and everyone was so hyped about it :)
The T on the thigh was everythingggg. I thought it was a little fluff that got stuck when she first came on the red carpet lmao. I kinda thought her last year outfit was all over the place but this one I like
I’ve recently came across SRSLY Wrong after Cory Doctorow shared about their Library Socialism 3 part series.
It has no ads, but they have several sketches that are parody ads that relate to the topics they discuss each episode.
I am not from Guelph, but I have tried Miijidaa Cafe and enjoyed it! Also it is connected to the Bookshelf, a bookstore, which is nice to peruse, and they have a cinema upstairs. Cute date night all in one building!