Comment on The Fediverse Isn’t the Future. It’s the Present We’ve Been Denied.
ghostrider2112@lemmy.world 2 days agoPersonally, I prefer an intellectual barrier to entry. It’s one of the things that made the internet of the early days so much better than today.
LandedGentry@lemmy.zip 2 days ago
Everybody who says this assumes they wouldn’t have been barred from entry were they to try and get in now.
ghostrider2112@lemmy.world 2 days ago
I was speaking more to the early days of the internet. You had to be relatively smart, and determined to get on it.
nulluser@lemmy.world 2 days ago
I’ll never forget when the AOLers started showing up.
ghostrider2112@lemmy.world 2 days ago
yeah, they sure ruined newsgroups…