A place to share screenshots of Microblog posts, whether from Mastodon, tumblr, ~~Twitter~~ X, KBin, Threads or elsewhere.
Created as an evolution of White People Twitter and other tweet-capture subreddits.
RULES:
RELATED COMMUNITIES:
https://timeloop.cafe/@Taweret/116026253299154536
i deadass quit all other social media
Neurodivergent, certainly. But I also have a sneaking suspicion that a large majority of us are millenials. We've gone through this repeatedly in the internet age, changing chat or social platforms. We're the early adopters and eventually everybody on earth comes to crush it to death and then we rebuild somewhere else.
And for us Gen-X/Gen-Y folks, all the Fediverse needed to do was to say "it'll be just like the Internet in the 1990s" and we were like "HELL YEAH SIGN ME UP"
Gives me BBS era / Usenet vibes, yesss
Yes! The millenials too though. We're as nostalgic (or maybe even more nostalgic) for the 90s internet because it was our entire childhoods.
(Millennial is gen Y 😜)
Oh, yeah. I never see it used and it didn't even register. 🤦
you say that but i just saw this post about the Formulars for different kinds of rizz in my time line
I wish this would not have made sense to me, but I think I get what they are trying to say. Enough Internet for today, it makes me feel weird
Well to be fair, there's not just neurodivergent people in the Fediverse.
There's also a bunch of queer people. And furries.
Also neurodivergent queer people, neurodivergent furries, queer furries, and neurodivergent queer furries. Duh.
In other words, all the cool kids.
Isn't queer technically also neurodivergent?
The Fediverse really seems like the late 90's/early 00's internet, before the influx of corporate silo media. So far folks here are more or less ok, and the lack of deliberate ragebait pushing is refreshing.
the fediverse is the internet in its most internet state
Yes - it all comes crashing down if DNS fails
also, there's no karma system and no karma farming
and we can say unpopular things without worrying about downvotes
uh
eating pizza with a fork and knife is kinda enjoyable
you get to taste more pizza per pizza, and you take your time to savor it
You also don’t get your hands dirty.
It's a very specific subset of neurodivergents, tbh. I don't see much discussion around typically geeky topics. On Reddit, if I had a fleeting thought or question about a fictional world, I had /r/asksciencefiction. On the fediverse? No such board. The answer to that is "Oh just create it", but I don't have the time or the attention span to moderate such a place.
Create the spaces you want to see, it is very low effort, then put up a post asking for others to help so they can get to it when you are not there. We rarely get problems other than spam here and there, but the small ones are extremely quiet. No one is spamming !orchidaceae@mander.xyz lmao. If you have a team, you can pass it off if you get burnt out and replaced. Do not be afraid! We need a diverse array of mods, do not let us get like Reddit where too many are controlled by a handful of folks. I fully plan on releasing many of mine to a team of more qualified folks when the time comes. :)
TBH this disappeared on Reddit too. All my preferred fandom subs are now cesspools, with zero depth in fandom knowledge yet weird, cultish worshipping of the material. Bigger general subs feel like bot farms.
Piefed's /c/television is 1000x better.
But the best places on the internet for that are probably the TVTropes forums, SpaceBattles, and other "surviving" fiction boards.
Isn't that why/how the Internet was created?
Yeah, and then the corpos created platforms to bring the non-neurodivergent people to the internet.
This should be the motto of the fediverse.
And I feel good for it. Thanks to all the folks out there who are making it happen
i do like it here :3
That's the Internet in general to begin with.
...until the "money people" started getting involved.
Yup, and yup.
Golden age: "Let's share ideas freely and argue over semantics"
Silver age: "Let's share everything freely and jerk off to it, ignoring the ads"
Bronze age: "Let's share nothing, stream everything, visit 5 websites, and buy buy buy."
No that’s the other Internet.
was this not the intended use?
Eh, there are non neuro divergents as well, there are dozens of us, I tell ya!
Ever since I discovered this side of the internet, I love it and I'll never leave it.
if all there was is subscription slop. i'd choose off.
Sounds like a dream tbh
Its beautiful