The fediverse is probably the most important thing i feel like I'm involved with right now. As we start having these conversations about social media, the fediverse is something I can point to where many kinds of community models are explored outside the almost defacto context of ad-driven services. It feels good to be here. It feels good to know that we have relcalaimed some of the most revolutionary social technology from monolithic exploitation.
And we do it all because... we want to. We want to be here, we want to talk, we want to share. We want this space to be for us. So we made it for each other.
Holy shit, right?
I can't even begin to express how much I loved reading this! ^,^
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@kafkaesqueNomad *offers hugs*
I'm glad XD
Sometimes I kinda just... get ranty, because the scale of this is... awesome.
@maloki @kafkaesqueNomad *hug* :)
Uh-huh. Same here, though you're wording other aspects and much better than I could, which powers my grin. 😸
@Irick I am 100% with you. When describing the experience of being here to my friends, I can't help but relate the environment here to the "old" internet I enjoyed back in the mid to late 90s, where independent vision and creativity drove the internet as opposed to commercial interests and advertising. Glad to be here with you!
@emerican
Yeah.
I don't think the commercialization of the internet changed our desire to be here and to make cool places to be. It just hid it behind the number game of economic utility. We're just... here again, at the frontier, because some driven people put in some hard work. And now we have all of these awesome islands and a robust shipping infrastructure! :3
@Einahpets you might want to have a look at this thread and put it in context with our conversation, too.
I'd kind of like to see this corner of the web getting people to un-learn all that "I don't belong" conditioning/mindset/beliefs.
Because we all belong. And we deserve to.
@Irick
The best thing about the fediverse is not just that it's growing in size; it changes and adapts, but not as a creature that changes once in it's lifetime, but as an ecosystem that evolves: new things are born in it, and as they grow, they change the whole landscape.
@Irick but do you like being called a foxie? x3
@umbrellix
I'm not opposed to it, but it confuses me.
(I'm a mouse-thing :3)
I just want to be here, and watch people discover that they can actually do something. I'm proud that we have made this place where that step isn't just possible, but enjoyable. It's such a simple action. Just being here. It's such an abstract value, adding to this vast network, but it's so real. This tiny, giant space where we know each other. At these frontiers, where even the strangers are family because we all pitch in to keep the place running.