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PurpleCat (purplecat@pleromaundermybed.ddns.net)'s status on Sunday, 30-Jul-2023 05:40:32 JST PurpleCat
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@coolboymew @McMongoose @freemo @josemanuel @Moon @tomey So in the good old days of Java and later Mibbit (which got replaced by some other web chat thing due to Mibbit being a literal proxy and klined from 109 IRC networks at least), every single website tied their chatbox to an IRC chat.

I used to be a notorious shitposter in some IRC circles years ago haha.

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PurpleCat (purplecat@pleromaundermybed.ddns.net)'s status on Sunday, 30-Jul-2023 05:37:57 JST PurpleCat
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@coolboymew @McMongoose @freemo @josemanuel @Moon @tomey It wasn't if you had a chatbox on your website. That was the big thing before DIscord servers, you'd get an endless stream of summer posters.

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PurpleCat (purplecat@pleromaundermybed.ddns.net)'s status on Sunday, 30-Jul-2023 05:37:43 JST PurpleCat
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@josemanuel @McMongoose @Moon @coolboymew @freemo @tomey It's also no longer just over speech or political speech.

It's now over shit like what art is allowed to be posted online. This can be seen online, with shit like the Zamii070 situation (artist harassed for drawing characters wrong) giving way to the endless DNI posting, faux morals/puritanism over NSFW art, and arguments that boil down to a mix of "stop drawing what I don't like" and "drawings have rights".

This, this is why Japanese fedi instances are booming, and why some instances like varis are so militant about going after those who they see as bullying another JP artist into wiping his gallery and going dark, which keeps happening on Twitter. No seriously, it seems like Twitter has unreal amounts of drama in the art sphere.

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PurpleCat (purplecat@pleromaundermybed.ddns.net)'s status on Sunday, 30-Jul-2023 05:33:34 JST PurpleCat
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@coolboymew @McMongoose @freemo @josemanuel @Moon @tomey It's not even just because of that, it's also shit like "all my friends use this" or "I don't want to make an account on this site" or "I don't want to download this app". Even if they have other reasons (see Mumble simply not supporting as many features as Skype did), they cannot articulate it.

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PurpleCat (purplecat@pleromaundermybed.ddns.net)'s status on Sunday, 30-Jul-2023 05:33:01 JST PurpleCat
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@josemanuel @freemo @Moon @coolboymew @McMongoose @tomey When people join "free speech" websites in 2023, there's a very darn good reason they would IMO.

The be yourself social media culture (or at least the impression of it as Tumblr was giving off despite being a facade) has given way to neopuritanism, which is being fought with other forms of it. A website protesting bad internet laws was saying that they should be blocked for the very same thing the other side wanted to pass those bills for. Not any other reason, but literally that.

The fedi thrives in spite of this blocklisting, not because of it, just because Twitter is so much worse unless you're a firstname lastname boring NPC who is trying to get those like/retweet numbuhs up.

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PurpleCat (purplecat@pleromaundermybed.ddns.net)'s status on Tuesday, 04-Jul-2023 12:54:19 JST PurpleCat

you should totally listen to some pc98 chiptune
https://archive.org/details/c-77-fmp-fmp-music-disk-vol.-9-mdfmdsdcp
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  PC-98 Music Disks: FMP Music DIsk 1-9, some PMD disks, a lot of FMP/PMD files, and more
  
  A mirror/zip file of this torrent file I found called "(C77) (同人音楽) [FMP] FMP MUSIC DISK Vol.9 ＋α (mdf+mds+dcp)" and wow does it have a lot of PC-9801 music files! It not only includes FMP Music Disk 9, but also numerous PMD music disks and FMP/PMD files.
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PurpleCat (purplecat@pleromaundermybed.ddns.net)'s status on Tuesday, 04-Jul-2023 07:30:22 JST PurpleCat

So there's a really good reason why I am hosting Pleroma today on a Core 2 Duo:
During a much happier time on the internet, I knew a bunch of people who hosted Quake, CS, Mumble/TS, and other servers in their basement, closet, or under their bed.

While I could lament about the state of the modern phone obsessed nerd, instead I should point something else out: Twitter is dead and BlueSky is still invite only for what amounts to Napster as social media. What you can do is host a Pleroma instance using a server under your bed/in your closet/in the basement, and to add to that the server is literally a Core 2 Duo from 2008-9.

I will keep this server up for at least a month and upload a video tutorial, just to promote fediverse some more among nerds.
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