Gather round people ill tell you a storyAn eight year long story of power and prideBritish Lord Vestey and Vincent LingiariWere opposite men on opposite side...
A story of our land, and hopefully a bit of a link with the future of the Fediverse.
The idea of Web3 - that things are decentralised with interconnected but independent locations is just regular Web. It’s what we had before some person with a marketing degree and a love of buzzwords coined the term “Web 2.0”.
We sacrificed all that for a lower barrier of entry and mainstream adoption. The independence cost too much in the end because we gave control to our interactions to companies who wanted to make a profit.
Honestly, this fediverse/Lemmy is how the Internet has always been. My first post to Usenet was in 1989, and the difference between newsgroups and Lemmy is mostly front end. We had Newsgroup servers (instances), news groups (Communities) Subscriptions and much the same people/culture as this 30+ years ago. Posts to news groups were all plain text; closer to email messages than this. We didn’t have voting. But the rest feels very familiar to me.
The idea of Web3 - that things are decentralised with interconnected but independent locations is just regular Web. It’s what we had before some person with a marketing degree and a love of buzzwords coined the term “Web 2.0”.
We sacrificed all that for a lower barrier of entry and mainstream adoption. The independence cost too much in the end because we gave control to our interactions to companies who wanted to make a profit.
Honestly, this fediverse/Lemmy is how the Internet has always been. My first post to Usenet was in 1989, and the difference between newsgroups and Lemmy is mostly front end. We had Newsgroup servers (instances), news groups (Communities) Subscriptions and much the same people/culture as this 30+ years ago. Posts to news groups were all plain text; closer to email messages than this. We didn’t have voting. But the rest feels very familiar to me.