I’m personally crossing my fingers for Discord.

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    That’s certainly what it’s feeling like to me.

    I remember when I was a kid and the Web 1.0 stuff was popular, things like IRC chat and forums were too intimidating/confusing for me to get into. My introduction to being an internet “citizen” was Web 2.0 and the MySpaces/Facebooks/Reddits of the world, where I had a UX approachable enough not to intimidate my teenage self.

    The shift towards the Fediverse feels like a blend of many of the best aspects of Webs 1.0 and 2.0 – I have a UX that feels familiar, but one that comes with a bottom-up, decentralized grassroots feel that is reminiscent of the early internet.

    I’m bullish for sure.

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      I always like to hear about when internet was at its early stages. I’m born in 2001 so never got the chance to live through that era, but to me it always feels so much better than what it is right now.

      Hearing you say that we are experiencing a moment similar to those is making me so happy.

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        I was absolutely amazing!
        complete wild west. only limit was your mind/imagination.

        at least it felt like that, when I was young ;⁠-⁠)

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        People do remember it with rose colored glasses - there were fewer niche communities, fewer lgtbq+ communities, slower connections, 240p video at best (so much anime I somehow watched like that… Sorry anime), sexism and racism in a more general way vs now as like society and particularly techie culture at the time in general, not being able to use the internet when someone needed to use the phone, and so on - but while we gained a lot with time that we take for granted now, we did lose stuff, too.

        I hope we can bring back something of the good that was lost, now and in the future, as well as find new good things.

        At least, surely, there will always be cat pics.