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I wasn't involved in the decisions, but if it wasn't defederated I'd have to block it all from my end. You know why, don't be coy.

My mom was part of that hippie generation that gave LOTR its first taste of success. I read her copies about 1970 or so. That generation of fandom was quite different from what there is today. Now we've got volume after volume of additional information and stories and wonderfulness, but back then there was LOTR, The Hobbit, and some scholarly works. We couldn't even be baffled by the Silmarilion yet!

That's not the least of what makes me unhappy about the Google search experience lately. The thing I don't like is how much it sucks. Like, really really sucks. It was the paradigm of mind-boggling usefulness at one point. Now it's an ad server with occasionally marginally relevant results.

I still run a handful of IRC channels. Old does not mean ineffective.

It's a no-brainer. I was an early addict of Usenet, and never found the same utility and community when everyone left for the bright shiny corporate sites (and usenet became harder and harder to access since it wasn't making any billionaires richer.) The Fediverse is what is needed to take the internet back. I just feel bad that it took me so long to start. I joined Mastodon in January and am a thousand times more active there than I ever was at the birdsite, because my account is growing and morphing to fit MY needs. The same will happen with Lemmy and Kbin, and I hope with peertube and all the others. I keep saying it...the Fediverse is what we should have been doing all along, rather than tolerating the billionaires because it was "convenient".

No specific quote, just a thought that Vimes has several times...If you'll do something bad for a good reason, you're that much closer to doing something bad for a bad reason.

In fairly short order, once I left Twitter for Mastodon, I became far more active than I ever had been on the birdsite. And already, I've found there is nothing on reddit that I was following that I can't find with Lemmy. I suspect I'll become a lot more involved here over time.

It's not that the fediverse is a good replacement for twatter, Reddit, Facebook, etc...it's what we all should have been doing all along. It's like having old school usenet back.

I left Twitter for Mastodon, and not only did I find that it met my needs, I found a lot of other stuff making it worth being far more involved with than I ever was with Twitter. (Twitter for me was about emergency comms and weather, not social interaction.) And now Reddit is being musked...I have no issue losng Reddit even without an analog, but it's fast becoming obvious that the Fediverse is where that content and community really should have been all along. I'm already spending more time with accounts on Lemmy and Kbin than I ever did at Reddit.

It's not a replacement. It's not meant to be a replacement. It's what we really should have been doing all along.

Ain't gonna happen. It would make whatever it is that they think they can sell available for free.

Obscuring locations makes me feel better, but as you say, it means close to nothing. I wouldn't bother.

I was asking myself the same question a couple of years ago, and there wasn't any real need for either. I ended up making it a Winlink RMS which actually does get regular use.

I'm in :)