miguel

I love that game, I still play it all the time. It’s one of my absolute favorites.

Webrings were one of the best ways to spend an evening. I loved getting lost in the Tolkien and Gardening ones.

I tried gemini protocol for a bit to see if it did a decent job addressing this, but it doesn’t. We do legit need a ‘smallweb’ non-commercial sort of thing, but I suspect retreating to a BBS model is probably what is required.

Netscape? I don’t think it worked out for them, if that was the case :D

What “kickstart”? The fediverse isn’t a commercial venture. If we can connect with our friends and interests, it’s already “working”. I find fantastic new people here all the time, doing really niche stuff I’d never find on a platform focused on appealing to everyone.

If “99%” of people aren’t on it, that’s perfectly acceptable, and just makes it easier for the ones on it to find and talk to their friends. I don’t think we need or want the vast torrent of spammers, downvote bots, and “influencer” types who use whatever gives them clicks.

I was told something like this about an article I was pointing out wasn’t on page 1 of google, but was on virtually all other engines. “Unless it’s page 1 of google nobody cares”

And all I can say is “who cares? those aren’t the people it’s for”

Considering it’s shipped by default on the fedi, on ghost, discourse, bsky and loads of other very hot upcoming and established tools, it’s very much alive. Just because xitter and facebook and google failed to find a way to monetize it and therefore tried to kill it doesn’t make it dead.

I’m a huge fan of RSS, it’s how I get 90% of my media now.

Ars technica ProPublica BBC (US) Joan Westenberg XKCD Questionable Content Fireside Fedi

Probably my faves. There’s a few others on pixelfed/mastodon that I follow as well, but more special interest

KDE. I’ve been using it as my daily driver for roughly 10 years now, and barring any unforeseen excitement, it’ll stay that way indefinitely. Proably until I stop using Linux, anyhow.