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   brunoc (brunoc@mastodon.sprawl.club)'s status on Saturday, 03-Jun-2023 17:03:57 JST brunoc

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   The Internet works just fine without your every move being tracked. It works just fine without ads. It works just fine without novelty TLDs. What I fear is younger folks actually believing that things HAVE to be this way. They don't. "But how will it scale?" It doesn't have to. "But how will you monetize it?" You can, but you don't HAVE to. Again: IT. WAS. NOT. LIKE. THiS. not too long ago. It was cool, and weird, and serendipitous, and raw, and ugly.

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     brunoc (brunoc@mastodon.sprawl.club)'s status on Saturday, 03-Jun-2023 17:04:06 JST brunoc

     • The_Gibson :veilid:

     I was thinking about the Veilid stuff @thegibson was talking about, and this kind of hit me: I'm 45. My first computer was an MSX.I was there during the BBS days. I was there during the early craziness of commercial internet. I was there for all that shit. This is not a brag or anything, it's just to set the context. I think/fear younger folks simply do not understand that SHIT. WAS. NOT. LIKE. THIS. And that's what the mayor is talking about.

     pettter repeated this.