• kernelle@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    The fediverse is the perfect example of how social media should be implemented following Sir Tim Berners-Lee’s vision when creating the WWW. That’s why this feels like pre-2010 internet!

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    1 year ago

    I remember the first time I heard about the web. My exact response was: “That sounds like a waste of bandwidth.”

    Ha ha. Oops.

    (In the early 90s I was completely obsessed with usenet. The graphical nature of web pages seemed like a terrible idea to me.)

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      1 year ago

      From the overview:

      “The project is based on the philosophy that much academic information should be freely available to anyone. It aims to allow information sharing within internationally dispersed teams, and the dissemination of information by support groups.”.

      Now it seems most of it is taken up by TikTok videos of someone’s pet poodle