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   Christine Lemmer-Webber (cwebber@social.coop)'s status on Sunday, 05-Jan-2025 01:10:44 JST Christine Lemmer-Webber

   • Danny O'B

   "teaching old hippies new tricks" by @danny https://www.oblomovka.com/wp/2025/01/02/teaching-old-hippies-new-tricks/

   > A few fates that I’ve avoided, barely: one is joining the Nineties Internet Re-Enactment Society, where communities scrabble to re-inforce the dominant vibe of — what, two? three? years maximum? — the early networks. I mean, I still have it in my habits — my dinky RSS reader, my affinity for plain text, email. A co-worker described watching me work as “like someone playing one of those adventure games”. I can see it.

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     Christine Lemmer-Webber (cwebber@social.coop)'s status on Sunday, 05-Jan-2025 01:11:19 JST Christine Lemmer-Webber

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     • Danny O'B

     @danny

     > There’s a tradition you draw from, but the tradition evolves, it doesn’t mindlessly recreate. You don’t stay in the moment that you entered that tradition. My daughter says that Discord is IRC for young people, Slack is IRC for old people, and IRC is for people who can’t get out of their chair.

     OOF

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     Arne Babenhauserheide (arnebab@rollenspiel.social)'s status on Sunday, 05-Jan-2025 01:15:39 JST Arne Babenhauserheide

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     @cwebber and Matrix is IRC for young people who want Free Software in their browser?

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     rk: could be an enum (rk@mastodon.well.com)'s status on Sunday, 05-Jan-2025 02:15:57 JST rk: could be an enum

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     @cwebber

     I won’t stand for this!

     …mostly because I can’t get out of my chair.

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     fontenot (fontenot@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 05-Jan-2025 02:57:30 JST fontenot

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     • Danny O'B

     @cwebber @danny

     I like to think this isn't me, but that has to contend with the fact that I've spent a considerable amount of time making Firefox look and operate the way it did in 2007.

     With RSS, I'm struck by the fact that there really isn't a "this era" replacement. Substack seems like the latest attempt, but I think most readers still subscribe via the decidedly last-era email, rather than anything newfangled. I think most people probably only read social media?