#eternalseptember — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #eternalseptember, aggregated by home.social.
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The checklist for a social media post is ever getting longer:
Is it fake?
Is it by a bot?
Is it by a troll?
Is it click bait?
Is it rage bait?
Is it a dogmatical post?
Is it a fanatical post?
Is it a puritanical post?
Is it by a toxic poster?
Or is it posted only to annoy or tease?(There is an even longer version...)
#EternalSeptember
#InformationAge
#InformationSociety
#LifeInTheInformationAge
#SocialMedia
#SocialPsychology
#UmbertoEco2015 -
The checklist for a social media post is ever getting longer:
Is it fake?
Is it by a bot?
Is it by a troll?
Is it click bait?
Is it rage bait?
Is it a dogmatical post?
Is it a fanatical post?
Is it a puritanical post?
Is it by a toxic poster?
Or is it posted only to annoy or tease?(There is an even longer version...)
#EternalSeptember
#InformationAge
#InformationSociety
#LifeInTheInformationAge
#SocialMedia
#SocialPsychology
#UmbertoEco2015 -
That's the date.
March 2018 ended on March 31, 2018.
March 2019 ended on March 31, 2019.
March 2020 didn't... -
That's the date.
March 2018 ended on March 31, 2018.
March 2019 ended on March 31, 2019.
March 2020 didn't... -
It's AOL #EternalSeptember all over again
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It's AOL #EternalSeptember all over again
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I'm so old, I remember the internet before the dreadful afternoon of #EternalSeptember
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I'm so old, I remember the internet before the dreadful afternoon of #EternalSeptember
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I remember forums and when PHP was created. The golden age of the internet, post #EternalSeptember
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I remember forums and when PHP was created. The golden age of the internet, post #EternalSeptember
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Back in 1993, I went to get another degree to just to get internet access, which was one of the few ways to get it back then. We had VAX and Unix, both fine platforms, hundreds of students would log in to one CPU from a terminal on campus or the house. We were connected to the world and communications were fast. I remember that's when the entire continent of Australia was connected by a pair of 2MB cables at the time. We had many distributed servers for news, email, IRC, gopher, etc, but it was lightning fast. Engineers at companies put tech documents on ftp servers. The internet was a big world library and the world was free. #JavaScript wasn't invented yet to slow us down or bury us in popups and advertisements. The entire internet was ad-free and advertising was a ban offense.
Then one morning I remember what would be known as #EternalSeptember, thanks to #AOL. And the #CanterSiegel spam happened. And the real cranks invaded. Many of us banned every .com address to regain sanity. This is when investors invaded the internet to hype it up into television quality. At least we still have #Wikipedia, #InternetArchive, and #Mastodon. Watching #Bluesky open up the floodgates to fascists was obvious to those of us who remember the past. -
Back in 1993, I went to get another degree to just to get internet access, which was one of the few ways to get it back then. We had VAX and Unix, both fine platforms, hundreds of students would log in to one CPU from a terminal on campus or the house. We were connected to the world and communications were fast. I remember that's when the entire continent of Australia was connected by a pair of 2MB cables at the time. We had many distributed servers for news, email, IRC, gopher, etc, but it was lightning fast. Engineers at companies put tech documents on ftp servers. The internet was a big world library and the world was free. #JavaScript wasn't invented yet to slow us down or bury us in popups and advertisements. The entire internet was ad-free and advertising was a ban offense.
Then one morning I remember what would be known as #EternalSeptember, thanks to #AOL. And the #CanterSiegel spam happened. And the real cranks invaded. Many of us banned every .com address to regain sanity. This is when investors invaded the internet to hype it up into television quality. At least we still have #Wikipedia, #InternetArchive, and #Mastodon. Watching #Bluesky open up the floodgates to fascists was obvious to those of us who remember the past. -
I wish #eternalseptember would end and the #aiwinter would get here soon.
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I wish #eternalseptember would end and the #aiwinter would get here soon.
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Seeing this #forkiverse thing emerging in my timeline got me curious and somehow reminds me of the #eternalseptember usenet discussions from the early nineties. Makes me feel old. We did survive at that time, I bet we will again
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Seeing this #forkiverse thing emerging in my timeline got me curious and somehow reminds me of the #eternalseptember usenet discussions from the early nineties. Makes me feel old. We did survive at that time, I bet we will again
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RE: https://mastodon.social/@onthisday/115673398971761625
I was working for SkyCache. We did satellite usenet and web cache pre-injection, saving ISPs money on transit costs. This lawsuit had a second order effect of dropping transit usage for those same ISPs. They stopped paying for our service.
It was a weird time on the internet. Prior to the lawsuit, a burst of innovation and scaling network capacities to accommodate the demand of P2P apps. With Napster falling and the dotCom bubble bursting all in the same time frame, the industry stagnated for a while. It was unfathomable to think we wouldn't need to keep scaling our network equipment, then overnight, *crickets*.
I think we're about to see the exact same thing happen with datacenters, GPUs, and electricity thanks to AI.
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RE: https://mastodon.social/@onthisday/115673398971761625
I was working for SkyCache. We did satellite usenet and web cache pre-injection, saving ISPs money on transit costs. This lawsuit had a second order effect of dropping transit usage for those same ISPs. They stopped paying for our service.
It was a weird time on the internet. Prior to the lawsuit, a burst of innovation and scaling network capacities to accommodate the demand of P2P apps. With Napster falling and the dotCom bubble bursting all in the same time frame, the industry stagnated for a while. It was unfathomable to think we wouldn't need to keep scaling our network equipment, then overnight, *crickets*.
I think we're about to see the exact same thing happen with datacenters, GPUs, and electricity thanks to AI.
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#OSM has its own #eternalseptember - it's called highway classification. The most recent reinventions: https://community.openstreetmap.org/t/official-classification-of-highways/137263 / https://community.openstreetmap.org/t/rfc-feature-proposal-motorway-classifications/137119 and a plea to not discuss this ever again https://community.openstreetmap.org/t/lets-not-talk-about-highway-classification-in-osm/137150 which, unsurprisingly, also turns into a discussion about highway classification.
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#OSM has its own #eternalseptember - it's called highway classification. The most recent reinventions: https://community.openstreetmap.org/t/official-classification-of-highways/137263 / https://community.openstreetmap.org/t/rfc-feature-proposal-motorway-classifications/137119 and a plea to not discuss this ever again https://community.openstreetmap.org/t/lets-not-talk-about-highway-classification-in-osm/137150 which, unsurprisingly, also turns into a discussion about highway classification.
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"The Internet is full! Go away!"
R.I.P. Erik Naggum
One of my first encounters with the Internet in the mid 90s was an article in some consumer IT magazine, where Erik Naggum greeted the newcomers sporting this t-shirt.
Other names to mention from Usenet was the bold keyboard jockeys Inge Lindland, Jarle Aase, Jarle Synnevåg , Peter Svaar undsoweiter....
That said, my first ever theoretical encounter with this behemoth was in 1991 and an article the anarchist paper Gateavisa - which was much more open to curious newbies. In their guide to the Internet - the fun started at the newsgoups and the alt.* hierarchy!
#eternalseptember #LISP #internetculture #Gateavisa -
"The Internet is full! Go away!"
R.I.P. Erik Naggum
One of my first encounters with the Internet in the mid 90s was an article in some consumer IT magazine, where Erik Naggum greeted the newcomers sporting this t-shirt.
Other names to mention from Usenet was the bold keyboard jockeys Inge Lindland, Jarle Aase, Jarle Synnevåg , Peter Svaar undsoweiter....
That said, my first ever theoretical encounter with this behemoth was in 1991 and an article the anarchist paper Gateavisa - which was much more open to curious newbies. In their guide to the Internet - the fun started at the newsgoups and the alt.* hierarchy!
#eternalseptember #LISP #internetculture #Gateavisa -
Okay, signing up for Usenet again like it's 1999.
Going with Eternal-September just 'cuz I like the concept. :)
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Okay, signing up for Usenet again like it's 1999.
Going with Eternal-September just 'cuz I like the concept. :)
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Yesterday #AOL finally shut down #dialup. No more bee-bzz-brr-chrrr.
In 2019, 265,000 people in the US were still using a dial-up connection¹ (at 56 kbps!). Before the shutdown, this number was in the low 1000s².
What were they doing? An average website probably takes 10 minutes to load with a modem. Still eternal-septembering the #usenet? ;)
I'd be interested in numbers from other parts of the world.
⒈) https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDT1Y2019.B28011?q=ACSDT1Y2019.B28011
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Yesterday #AOL finally shut down #dialup. No more bee-bzz-brr-chrrr.
In 2019, 265,000 people in the US were still using a dial-up connection¹ (at 56 kbps!). Before the shutdown, this number was in the low 1000s².
What were they doing? An average website probably takes 10 minutes to load with a modem. Still eternal-septembering the #usenet? ;)
I'd be interested in numbers from other parts of the world.
⒈) https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDT1Y2019.B28011?q=ACSDT1Y2019.B28011
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@MagicLike September 1993 never ended though… #EternalSeptember
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@MagicLike September 1993 never ended though… #EternalSeptember
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Today marks 5 years since I last went into an office for work.
I left early that day (a Wednesday) because I had some kind of stomach bug and vomited. It was a $50 Lyft ride from Brickell, in Miami to the then BB&T commuter parking lot in far west Sunrise just past Sawgrass Mills.
The office officially closed that Friday, and I retired in September 2021.
For me, time has warped into having no meaning and today is simply March, 1837, 2020.
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Today marks 5 years since I last went into an office for work.
I left early that day (a Wednesday) because I had some kind of stomach bug and vomited. It was a $50 Lyft ride from Brickell, in Miami to the then BB&T commuter parking lot in far west Sunrise just past Sawgrass Mills.
The office officially closed that Friday, and I retired in September 2021.
For me, time has warped into having no meaning and today is simply March, 1837, 2020.
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@BeAware I haven't had (almost) any such issues with #fediseer, but my primary audience has been #lemmy and the #threadiverse instead of microblogging. There's surprisingly different norms that have been organically reached in mastodon over the past decade which are fairly alien outside it.
It honestly feels more like a small group of people trying to futilely hold back the Eternal September through scolding and pile-ons.
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@BeAware I haven't had (almost) any such issues with #fediseer, but my primary audience has been #lemmy and the #threadiverse instead of microblogging. There's surprisingly different norms that have been organically reached in mastodon over the past decade which are fairly alien outside it.
It honestly feels more like a small group of people trying to futilely hold back the Eternal September through scolding and pile-ons.
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Seeing so many people in the "Local" feed on Pixelfed posting photos with captions like "Hello Pixelfed" or "First post" is seriously a really nice version of an Eternal September.
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they don't want "the normies"
they fear an #eternalseptember
thing is, since this is federation, anyone worried about that can keep their niche communities separate and never encounter "the normies"
and, like erin said, we want "the normies" here
otherwise they get mindwiped by plutocrat agendas on centralized #socialmedia
to do that we have to make the process of getting into the #fediverse dead simple
dead. simple.
even picking a server is a step too high for many
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they don't want "the normies"
they fear an #eternalseptember
thing is, since this is federation, anyone worried about that can keep their niche communities separate and never encounter "the normies"
and, like erin said, we want "the normies" here
otherwise they get mindwiped by plutocrat agendas on centralized #socialmedia
to do that we have to make the process of getting into the #fediverse dead simple
dead. simple.
even picking a server is a step too high for many
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@Khrys Mastodon le réseau social qui se prépare à un #eternalseptember bis ?
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yeah
if we ever want #mastodon #fediverse to grow, it has to be dead simple
dead. simple.
"i don't want all these normies on mastodon"
you kind of do
otherwise they are off in #twitter land or #rednote land or #facebook land getting mindwiped, and then voting
you can curate your mastodon experience to your hearts content, and avoid them all
don't worry about #eternalseptember on mastodon
worry about #plutocrat agendas controlling hordes of zombies
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yeah
if we ever want #mastodon #fediverse to grow, it has to be dead simple
dead. simple.
"i don't want all these normies on mastodon"
you kind of do
otherwise they are off in #twitter land or #rednote land or #facebook land getting mindwiped, and then voting
you can curate your mastodon experience to your hearts content, and avoid them all
don't worry about #eternalseptember on mastodon
worry about #plutocrat agendas controlling hordes of zombies
