RT @BeeCycling@twitter.com
@garius@twitter.com Nowhere else will be exactly the same as Twitter, same as nowhere else has been exactly the same as Live Journal, which I still mourn. But got to look forward not back. Live Journal taught me there's an expiry date on these places.
This.
I've been through Usenet, ICQ, Forums, Twitter and now ???
Mastodon? Maybe. Maybe Twitter (as I like it/use it) won't collapse yet.
But I learned a long time ago that all online discourse spaces die. You mourn them, but you also have to prep to move on.
AOL communities.
Usenet.
Large number of php music/urbex forums.
MySpace.
Something Awful (despite being a forum, it feels worth differentiating).
Facebook.
Google+.
Reddit.
Instagram.
Twitter.
Discord.
Hopefully Musk's drive to the bottom, along with the direction of things like the DMA, will finally push us away from social walled gardens.
@garius ICQ… a blast from the past! Dim memories of Feesch…