This is technically correct, which is the best kind of correct.
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It’s because the other internet is ruled by tyrants and pedophiles.
Most probably nepophiles as well. Or just basically sex offenders of all categories.
But I’m here, and I’m not neurodiver…ah beans
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
I much prefer this, our own internet, but without the "blackjack and hookers".
(I'd like to think that OUR Sex Workers are ethically sourced owners of their own means of production rather than trafficked and/or exploited by pimps or other parasitic human vermin... but one must remain vigilant.)
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.
The normies are self destructive.
Which internet should I be on? The one that's ran by friends of a pedo? Or the one ran by a pedo's company? Or the one with an actual, 100% for real, CSAM-generator built into it that was too weird to get to be as much of a pedo as he wanted to be?
Let's get some more posts about spoon design, OK? I like the validation.
no ad revenue, no fake internet points, we just post for the love of the game
It's just a return to where internet access was a filter, and you didn't have Boomers on MySpace and phpBB
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.
While the rest of social media is where neurotypical people go to talk with bots?
the fediverse is the internet in its most internet state
also, there's no karma system and no karma farming
and we can say unpopular things without worrying about downvotes
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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
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.
Nah, I ain't neurodivergent everything else is true.
You need more vaccines /s
You might say that now, but each time you post on here your neuro diverges a little.
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.
No fediverse is the internet. Meta, X etc. are not.
That's the killer app for the fediverse. Because non of y'all have the attention span to become a long-term influencer turned into a grifter. And I love it.
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."
And I feel good for it. Thanks to all the folks out there who are making it happen




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