• sab@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    The open internet has been dying ever since centralized social media services overtook for phpBB forums. Recent developments with ActivityPub is the first time it seems to be making a comeback.

    It’s not even an opinion, it’s just… how it is.

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      1 year ago

      Doesn’t even seem like it was that long ago that I’d be sitting at my desktop, 5+ tabs open. One might be Fark, Stumbleupon, Digg, etc for general shits and giggles, maybe some news. The others were the independent forums I visited every day for my interests where I actually got to meet and befriend some people, regardless of location.

      The anonymity of Reddit (which I was cool with) definitely was a shift in what “community” actually meant online.