People on here think too highly of themselves and the Fediverse. The overwhelming majority of people here don’t know the basics of programming and of the few that do, the vast majority of them don’t make any contributions. Even to those who do contribute, comparing themselves or the Fediverse WWW and the people who built it rather arrogant, no?

At the end of the day, the Fediverse would be better off going through a reality check. It’s a niche alternative to mainstream social media that trades content for privacy. The tech is neat and the idea behind it is noble, but that’s about it. It’s not going to revolutionize the internet any time soon.

Never thought I would say we need to decentralize the Internet

Yes, bow to me, the grand architect of geocities Dragon Ball Z pages.

for 40+ people who built the WWW then sold it to the enshitifiers, which they now regret

I personally blame the iPhone. Shit all started going downhill from then

In our defense, corporations ruined the world wide web. It still has so much potential if they weren’t involved.

Fuck that. I don’t regret it. We built the world wide web from nothing for everyone and had it fucking stolen by rich assholes who put our community resources WE developed behind ads and paywalls. Unlike those uncreative hacks we have the talent to take it back.

I would like to deny this, but I can’t.

Hell yeah, my geocities Nine Inch Nails fan site helped build the Internet

It was supposed to make everything better, we were sure of it.

We were horribly wrong. Sorry.

well I feel seen

Mario teaches typing and the Oregon Trail on 5.2499" disks were just a dream.

As a call center employee, the most inexplicably difficult part of my job is asking an older person to navigate to our website. When I give them the 9 letter address, it almost always results in a google search for them and the ordeal of having them try to pick out our website from the sponsored results brings joy to advertisers everywhere.

Did we build the world wide web or did we just shitpost for the lulz for decades without realizing we gave all the benefits of our shitposting to Mark Zuckerberg?