“Sometimes there’s a man… I won’t say a “hero,” because what’s a hero? But sometimes there’s a man who… well, he’s the man for his time and place!” – Sam Elliot (the Stranger) from the glorious The Big Lebowski
You know that classic quote about standing on the shoulders of giants (and pioneers)? Honestly, in so many ways, that’s how I truly feel about the good ol’ Fediverse.
So, to sum up-- who are YOUR heroes here, and what does keep you hanging on here, baby…?
Here because its a great experiment and a reminder of the old internet that is otherwise mostly lost.
I’m a regular user of forums boards (modern ones like Discourse, but still) on which the interactions stayed mostly the same as 20 years ago… it feels close-knit, almost intimate. Conversations are usually well reasoned, if not as slow as they were back in the day -given that thread pages update on their own when a new message is posted, it’s not as static as it used to be, and I think that’s for the better, even though I am nostalgic of phpbb boards
i went to a forum shortly after the ban waves; meant for OF users and link dropping who are in the market of using hordes of accounts to earn money . apparently they have equally reported how heavy handed reddit has gotten in detecting people trying to “hide thier accounts IDentity, like fingerprinting”