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Scooter :polyamoryFlag:<a class="u-url mention" href="https://infosec.exchange/@Em0nM4stodon" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@Em0nM4stodon</a> As a user from well back in the day, pre-1990...this space reminds me a great deal of the original EFNet/NSFNet/ARPANet I used to inhabit when I was in college, prior to The September That Never Ended (if anyone picks up on that reference). The users came from a mostly academic or research-forward corporate background; the powers that be in the corporate world mostly had no conception of what the Internet was, and once they discovered it, still didn't have a real idea how it worked, as it was antithetical to the ethos of capitalism. Thus, the user base exhibited traits associated with enthusiastic engineers and academics: braininess, neophilia, curiosity, imagination. Being geeky and different was celebrated and encouraged. The same mentality you might find at an SF convention, art gallery, museum, or junior/local theater project. Communities were intentional, and there was a sense of reciprocal rights and recognition...a celebration of our global diversity. Of course, flamewars there were...but overall, there was a nurturing of positive growth within the space. Ancient history, of course. I am wondering if there is a self-regulation that's involved. When I describe the Fediverse to others, even friends whom I consider intelligent, there seems to be a lack of exact comprehension about what it is I'm talking about. (And among my age cohort, there's also a fatigue with social media in general, which I think is partly a function of age, and partly an accrual of bad experiences on Facebook and other corporatized media.) When I started my phpBB forum as a general online space, I found the "culture" of such forums to be *radically* different. I described it as the "what's your favorite donut" mentality - everything was facile and superficial, like the scene in the kitchen at an awkward party. It just never took off and I don't have any idea why. (Several people close to me have encouraged me not to delete the forums; if you wish to go there, see my profile and pinned post for the address and registration code.) <a class="hashtag" href="https://labyrinth.zone/tag/fediverse" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Fediverse</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://labyrinth.zone/tag/efnet" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#EFNet</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://labyrinth.zone/tag/arpanet" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ARPANet</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://labyrinth.zone/tag/nsfnet" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#NSFNet</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://labyrinth.zone/tag/phpbb" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#phpBB</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://labyrinth.zone/tag/forum" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Forum</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://labyrinth.zone/tag/sfcon" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#SFCon</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://labyrinth.zone/tag/diversity" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#diversity</a>

Mark Gardner<a href="https://fediscience.org/@petersuber" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@petersuber</a> I vividly remember the early days of the web when it was unclear whether it would matter to average people compared to walled-garden services like <a href="https://social.sdf.org/tags/AOL" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#AOL</a> (then <a href="https://social.sdf.org/tags/AmericaOnline" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#AmericaOnline</a>), <a href="https://social.sdf.org/tags/Prodigy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Prodigy</a>, or <a href="https://social.sdf.org/tags/CompuServe" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#CompuServe</a>.IMHO the web’s early rise depended on two other factors: • Graphical <a href="https://social.sdf.org/tags/browsers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#browsers</a> like <a href="https://social.sdf.org/tags/NCSA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#NCSA</a> <a href="https://social.sdf.org/tags/Mosaic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Mosaic</a> on mainstream computer operating systems (1993) • Decommissioning of the US government-funded <a href="https://social.sdf.org/tags/NSFNET" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#NSFNET</a> backbone, effectively ending restrictions on commercial Internet traffic (1995)

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