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Neurodivergent, certainly. But I also have a sneaking suspicion that a large majority of us are millenials. We’ve gone through this repeatedly in the internet age, changing chat or social platforms. We’re the early adopters and eventually everybody on earth comes to crush it to death and then we rebuild somewhere else.
And for us Gen-X/Gen-Y folks, all the Fediverse needed to do was to say “it’ll be just like the Internet in the 1990s” and we were like “HELL YEAH SIGN ME UP”
Gives me BBS era / Usenet vibes, yesss
i’m gen z(?) :3
Yes! The millenials too though. We’re as nostalgic (or maybe even more nostalgic) for the 90s internet because it was our entire childhoods.
Yep! I remember message boards and the glory of bb code, when DMs were called PMs and everyone knew each other’s name.
no ad revenue, no fake internet points, we just post for the love of the game
I hate the game.
What is the game?
You just lost it, sorry
The Fediverse really seems like the late 90’s/early 00’s internet, before the influx of corporate silo media. So far folks here are more or less ok, and the lack of deliberate ragebait pushing is refreshing.
Which internet should I be on? The one that’s ran by friends of a pedo? Or the one ran by a pedo’s company? Or the one with an actual, 100% for real, CSAM-generator built into it that was too weird to get to be as much of a pedo as he wanted to be?
Let’s get some more posts about spoon design, OK? I like the validation.
It does kinda make me feel slightly happy that Elon is a loser in every circle he’s ever wanted to be part of
But I’m here, and I’m not neurodiver…ah beans
one of us
one of usone of us
one of us
This is technically correct, which is the best kind of correct.
Bureaucrat level up!
I much prefer this, our own internet, but without the “blackjack and hookers”.
(I’d like to think that OUR Sex Workers are ethically sourced owners of their own means of production rather than trafficked and/or exploited by pimps or other parasitic human vermin… but one must remain vigilant.)
unionised sex workers
the fediverse is the internet in its most internet state
It’s a very specific subset of neurodivergents, tbh. I don’t see much discussion around typically geeky topics. On Reddit, if I had a fleeting thought or question about a fictional world, I had /r/asksciencefiction. On the fediverse? No such board. The answer to that is “Oh just create it”, but I don’t have the time or the attention span to moderate such a place.
TBH this disappeared on Reddit too. All my preferred fandom subs are now cesspools, with zero depth in fandom knowledge yet weird, cultish worshipping of the material. Bigger general subs feel like bot farms.
Piefed’s /c/television is 1000x better.
But the best places on the internet for that are probably the TVTropes forums, SpaceBattles, and other “surviving” fiction boards.
Create the spaces you want to see, it is very low effort, then put up a post asking for others to help so they can get to it when you are not there. We rarely get problems other than spam here and there, but the small ones are extremely quiet. No one is spamming !orchidaceae@mander.xyz lmao. If you have a team, you can pass it off if you get burnt out and replaced. Do not be afraid! We need a diverse array of mods, do not let us get like Reddit where too many are controlled by a handful of folks. I fully plan on releasing many of mine to a team of more qualified folks when the time comes. :)
It’s because the other internet is ruled by tyrants and pedophiles.
Most probably nepophiles as well. Or just basically sex offenders of all categories.
Wait isn’t nephophile more about liking clouds?
Well to be fair, there’s not just neurodivergent people in the Fediverse.
There’s also a bunch of queer people. And furries.
Also neurodivergent queer people, neurodivergent furries, queer furries, and neurodivergent queer furries. Duh.
