Maybe once the strip mining of content for AI, turns off all creators of useful information , then there might be a rebellion.
Like "people-net" where people outnumber bots, where identity is perhaps anonymous, but at some point you must prove that you actually have an identity.
Not a power user by any means, but I mooked, and mudded, I visited the well, but didn't inhale.
Cleveland Freenet, local text based server.
alt.barney.dinosaur.die.die.die
Watched the big dump of scientology happen on alt.religion.scientology(?) who was that leaker ? Something that rhymed with Rupert Holmes the III or something,
Special Interest Groups that I miss, that got swallowed up by Facebook.
SteelheadSite/forums (for fisherman)
Plant Nerd sites that may still exist but have withered. (helpmefind.com roses and others) hirsutum (rhododendron) , Daves Garden (general Gardening) The old text based S.O.A.R (Searchable Online Archive or Recipes) it became epicurious, then.. I don't know what happened, but it was better as text
@tor_haxson@bourgwick@kdriscoll@bookstodon The Freenets! I started a website for my neighborhood in Buffalo in 2000, and we began on the Buffalo Freenet. I registered the domain that neighborhood still uses and moved it to a web host.
@tor_haxson@bourgwick@kdriscoll@bookstodon so Tor this (as I understand it) was the original goal of the lemmy fediverse software which is generally described as a "reddit-like" app. It can be, and it seems like one of the reasons it's stalled out is because every lemmy instance tries to be all of reddit at once. But you can also use it to make a forum dedicated to just one topic; so if each subreddit was its own website, say, and of course federated, so it should interoperate w/Mastodon.