Funny thing about the fediverse... I really only found it because of twitter. Shelter in place, so much shut down, I started digging around in old info files on old tech and found my info for my old twitter that I hadn't used in 8 freaking years LOL.
I logged in, tooled around because I found a decent opera sidebar extension for it, then I thought... there's gotta be something better than this... right?
Thank you fediverse for existing.
@freemo That makes a certain amount of sense in my warped mind. Weird crap happing all over the world, people start to panic, they turn to "mainstream" systems that everyone is familiar with to try to keep up with everything.
I'm a nerd girl... still skimming under the surface of the net with irc and gopher and even I didn't know about the fediverse until very recently.
Now that the initial wave of panic has passed, the weird is a little more normal, boredom is settling in, people are exploring again.
I like the ice berg image of the internet. The tip being what everyone thinks of as the internet, the deep web being all the systems and routes and servers that make the internet run, the darknet being places you find on Tor...
With that imagery, the "known internet" really is like surfing. The deep web is like scuba diving, and the darknet means learning to pilot a sub. It seems to me like the fediverse is like snorkeling.
@LittleWytch @freemo Hi and Wecome, always good to chat to fellow techies on IRC too.
@LittleWytch I would have actually expected a bigger spike of new users due to the lockdown, but the numbers actually went down a bit during lockdown