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We should not let the open web die a quiet death
(www.wired.com)
This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.
The open Internet was built by grad students and weirdo engineers, in a process involving frequent conflict. HTTP beat Gopher in part because Gopher was owned by a university that wanted to charge money for it. The Internet interprets bullshit that some nerd doesn't like as system damage and routes around it, eventually.
Also: Today's major tech companies succeeded (in part) by being tolerant enough to harness the engineering efforts of queer, trans, furry, fanfic-writing, burner, psychonaut geeks. IBM didn't let you wear cat ears to the office, but Google did. Google is now worth 10x as much money as IBM.
Meanwhile I find comfortable reading this on Feddit.
~~Oh no... Oh no... Maybe someday but it's too soon right now, for those still feeling the sharp sting.~~
Nvm, I misunderstood and probably should delete this, but instead will leave it edited like this.
I’m sorry you feel that way. I immediately felt at home on Lemmy. It legit gave me the feelings I had back when I first started using the internet in the mid 90’s. I thought that internet I knew was dead. But it seems a piece of it still lives on.
Consider it a much needed reset.