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Mastodon toot:
Daniel Lakeland @dlakelan@mastodon.sdf.org
Fediverse, the social media system for 40+ year old people who built the world wide web and regret it.
Oct 01, 2026, 11:32 PM
Who invented the modern computer look and feel - the sick sad history of computer-aided collaboration: What they wanted and how it went:
https://www.quora.com/Who-invented-the-modern-computer-look-and-feel/answer/Harri-K-Hiltunen
Honestly really glad, I'm tired of reading teenager opinions everywhere on the Internet
I just wanted my Geocities page back.
I just made a neocities page, highly recommend
Had no idea this was a thing. I'll get one up tomorrow!
I felt my back in this post.
I’m about half that age, and I’ve met at least a couple grads and undergrad students on here that I assumed were also in their 20s…
Welcome! You certainly don't have to match the stereotypes to fit in around here.
20 year old reporting for duty
Hah, you said duty.
Hey no fair! I'm 30, I grew up on the Internet and hate what it became
yeah but we didn't build it. we just grew up on it.
My take is that the fediverse is nice because it's still in its pre-enshittification phase. Give it time.
It's designed to resist corpo capture via interoperability... if it starts enshittifying, hopefully this will allow users to shift over without incurring too much switching cost keeping them in place
I think there's two general kinds of people on the fediverse: Those who believe in whatever freedom, security, privacy, whatever, and the rest of us that came from somewhere else that went off the deep end of enshittification.
The people who built the web aren't the ones responsible for its' consolidation.
I was contracted to work for a non-profit that helped teachers write and analyze student test scores for a few years. The non-profit ended when the CEO sold the company to another education company. The new education company has contracts with the department of defense in my country.
When I reflect upon the outcome. It would seem that the department of defense now has direct access to many more students who test scores are low. All lined up and analyzed. And I'm the one that automated the deployment of that system. I just quietly took my checks until my contract was no longer renewed.
From my point of view I did build a small part of the web. And I stood around and did nothing while the web/company/people around me were being consolidated. While the department of defense freely browsed some of the most vulnerable children/students in the country because they know poorer testing students are more likely to join the military for money.
A lot of people are going to die because of that analysis system in my opinion; And to me, that means I am responsible.
Well, maybe in some way. In some way we're all responsible for the military-industrial complex that consumes unbelievable amounts of money in pursuit of global domination and "national security".
Maybe you can do your part to break that up by educating children about the predatory nature of the military. About the many atrocities committed. And how they target people who don't test well in school (but obviously aren't necessarily stupid) because they're more likely to do what they're told and not question anything.
"I was there, Gandalf."
Maybe mastodon but the lemmy / piefed / mbin instances seem to be a much younger user base.
Wanna see us do it again? 💪 let's do this, team
