Mastodon toot:
Daniel Lakeland @dlakelan@mastodon.sdf.org
Fediverse, the social media system for 40+ year old people who built the world wide web and regret it.
Oct 01, 2026, 11:32 PM
there’s 2 kinds of people on fedi:
40 year olds who remember the good ol days of the interwebs
16 year old queer shitposters who got tired of getting called every slur imaginable on other networks
both are into linux
you forgot the 3rd kind
Russian bots
Luckily it is typically too small to be much of a bot target. I don’t subscribe to world news subs though, dark places.
If we unite, we can regret it again.
That was my first thought. If we believe in ourselves we can fill Lemmy with ads and make it a subscription service and sell everyone’s data to the lowest bidder. We can do it!
Why’d you have to call me out like that?
we wrote the rules of the internet, and while some were In-jokes about life on 4Chan, a lot of them are just plain truisms. But the language makes Gen Z have the buttpains, so here we are…
Maybe mastodon but the lemmy / piefed / mbin instances seem to be a much younger user base.
Wait I’m considered young here even though I’m in my late 30s?
You are but a whelpling. Welcome.
Does it count as building the web if I worked manufacturing the AOL disks that plagued everyone’s mailbox?
Sorry to say, that was more like the initial wave of enshitification.
Accurate.
I winced.
Ditto
Team sport 😬
Uhhh Go Team !!! (insert hey mickey gif) lol
But not too big a team, it gets ruined once you get too big
I’m going with cuck porn on this one
🥦😎
i’m 39 and haven’t built shit but the regret is real
There are some lost kids wandering around complaining about their moms…
I dunno how they found it into here.
The great thing about the Internet is that people can just find stuff, often by accident.
Well, people used to be able to do that. Nowadays, IDK…
complaining about their +70 year old mom
you leave my muddah out 'o this!
Not 40, but also don’t want my thoughts and comments to be an income stream for a for-profit organization, whether that be by selling and/or training an LLM using my data for profit or contributing to an inescapable network effect that can be increasingly monetized by various means.
The modern social media platform is not designed to foster positive interactions, but rather to maximize shareholder value.
also don’t want my thoughts and comments to be an income stream for a for-profit organization
I mean, you’re fooling yourself if you don’t believe Lemmy has been scrapped by a thousand crawlers by now.
I’m more paranoid about how many accounts are bots than about some data aggregator getting my dumbshit hot takes as training data.
Equal access for all is still better than one company controlling access to my content for the purposes of monetization.
I mean, you’re fooling yourself if you don’t believe Lemmy has been scrapped by a thousand crawlers by now.
That’s why we’re here. To fu k with the scrapers and poison the training 🙃
Dw, the corpos are using bots to scrape and categorize your thoughts and comments anyway.
I don’t regret it. I only regret letting the corporations stake their claim without greater pushback.
The slow creep was real. Social media corporations brought the mainstream to the internet in the worst possible way, but the old internet was still alive in forums and chats and discussion groups that had been around for years.
Reddit destroyed it. It gathered everyone into one place. It was constantly growing and pulled users from everywhere else in the internet to one place. Centralization. Then, it inevitably went corpo to the point that the greed of the ones on top destroyed the communities they gathered and exploited to put themselves in their elevated positions of wealth.
To be clear, the people with the money don’t care at all. They cashed out and got theirs. Everything burns around their greed, no different from oil companies.
The internet was supposed to connect everyone, share ideas, connect the world to collective knowledge, and bring us all together. Instead, it became a tool of corporatist and fascist control. Reddit ultimately ended up being the corpo that crushed and scattered the opposition.
“The best time to join the fediverse is 10 years ago, second best time is today.”
Wayne Gretzky- Michael Scott
I didn’t build it, but I was raised by it. I was so hopeful when I was younger.
“I was there, Gandalf.”
