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Reading up on Mastodon today. We computer types keep learning and relearning interfaces. ICQ? AOL, anyone? I remember the dizzying possibility of worlds behind each banner of the AOL homepage, and the now-famous “Welcome!…” This was mainly how we learned, the volume on our modern mini desktop speakers was turned up too loud. I still remember one text chat, where the mystery user signed off because they had to go just “be.” A heady new world, the mid-90’s.
Thanks to Gizmodo’s Dell Cameron, I’m reading this and this.
AOL went from leading the Time Warner logo blazed along Universal City’s Black Tower’s roofline, to, well, – where-ever it is now. One of my Contacts grins they’re too lazy to leave their aol dot com email address, that everyone has for them.
Twitter has every look to be the latest empty nest in social media. I’d tell myself to join it, but my FB experience had schooled me to just say no. Another provider’s foreign ownership and too-zealous data mining have proved it untrustworthy.
Mastodon seems purpose-built to stay clear of structures that felled others. We’ll soon see. Hundreds of thousands have noped out of Twitter to ad-free Mastodon, while its former advertisers colonize newly available spaces and trackable users on Netflix.
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