Someone joked that Mastodon was the twitter alternative "for the geeks." Even if that were true, which it isn't, it wouldn't be a bad thing. Geeks often do interesting things for both work and play and post accordingly. Too many of the cool kids just cash paychecks and goto parties. They're mostly interested in each other.
@shoq Everything starts out as "for the geeks." I'm old enough to remember when the internet - all of it, the entire internet - was only for the geeks. I remember when computers were only for the geeks Anyone over the age of 30 can remember when all of social media was dismissed as being just for antisocial nerds.
Everything starts out as for the geeks.
@shoq @ntfbscott I remember when the SMTP protocol didn’t verify the sender or return mail address fields. I sent my CTO at the time a snarky reply from “everyone@(that company)” to one of his silly pronouncements.
And tracking/data gathering? I remember when Marc Andreessen coded Netscape Navigator to send back all the sites that users visited because he “thought it was fascinating.”
Ah, the good old days of trivial mail forgery! I miss that.
Posting to alt.hackers, which was moderated but had no moderator, so you had to subvert the moderation protocol (also trivial, really; but fun!).
Bird site
@ceoln @ntfbscott @shoq “moderated but had no moderator” is SO birdsite!