I spent years of my life on Usenet, IRC and FTP sites. Now those spaces are veritable ghost towns, while corporate social network are full of ads and bots and search engines throw up AI slop. They're all dead or dying.
But the internet continues to have promise and potential and the fediverse is an example of what's still possible. Real communications and people. Great stuff.
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2025-12-23 19:47:52 UTC
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2025-12-23 19:47:52 UTCEvent JSON
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