The fediverse gets me excited about the Internet for the first time in a long while, warts and all.
Agreed, after spending time on here not being hounded by ads and tech company jargon, I see what a online social network should be like. Not motivated by profit, but rather community
It’s telling how new the reddit userbase is that they don’t know the histories of it. In for the first part of reddits existence it was full of warts. There was a saying, 402 it went through 404 try once more. Because reddit sucked at submitting comments so you had to keep retrying at times. Down times were so often too.
I think the last time I felt excited about the Internet was when Firefox was released.
Feels like the real web3 instead if all that crypto crap, even though its more like web1.
I think people are finally getting fed up with what corporations have done to social media. It was always community driven by community until that point. We’re just going back to our roots.
It’s not much, but I’m pretty proud to be a (very small) part of it.
As a long-time cryptocurrency observer, it is going to be very amusing (in a bitter sort of way) seeing everyone discovering that they’re trying to solve the same problems that cryptocurrencies have been working on solving for over a decade now. And then finding all sorts of ways to contort themselves into solving them differently from how cryptocurrencies did it so that nobody can accuse them of being “crypto bros” or whatever, even though the technology is perfectly applicable as-is.
