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soulful

>Never put identifying information online. Weird people will do weird things with it.
zoomers:
>HERES A LINK TO MY PROFILE ON EVERY SINGLE WEBSITE I HAVE EVER USED ONLINE x3

Good read. I think discord did offer better features then irc and irc wasn't decentralized but it offered the ability to do so. so that should be mentioned. I used irc for a long time and I had most of the features discord had but required setting up. Embeded thumbnails required plugins, private server or a service for hosting, and using mumble. I loved using mumble for VC you can even upload images in the chat. It really does suck ass that matrix and the discord alternatives are such shit but they really shouldn't be. Also the ironic thing is setting up a fucking matrix instance is harder then setting up ircd server.

tl;dr: my culture is NOT your costume

I've tried to get younger people join my IRC room and it's impossible. We spoonfeed them everything and even in the few cases they manage to get in, they leave after 5 minutes and never come back because it lacks all the bells and whistles of Discord. So it's only my group of older pals and me.

I don't get why zoomers think doxxing yourself to chat (phone number, emails, face scan/ID in certain countries, no VPN) on discord is less inconvenient than registering a username on IRC.

Something I'm somewhat disappointed wasn't mentioned is Usenet. While it was mostly ran by ISPs and businesses for a price back in the day, the core of Usenet (NNTP) has always been decentralized. Actually, the reason why it started sucking was because there was an attempt to centralize it thanks to Google Groups, which ended up de-peering a few years ago making UseNet a much more pleasant experience.

While the paid services are still useful for binaries, the article aspect is available with a number of free services, and it's not too hard to start your own. These servers peering with each other basically encourage anti-censorship and privacy. It's like a decent decentralized forum.


>>495
> how cute. retarded zoomer larping as a "le ebin oldefag millenial" who thinks that """"self-hosting"" is the norm back in the day.
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> umm no, sweaty...self-hosting wasn't even the norm back in the day
It actually was. If you did any research, you'd know the majority of individually ran websites and their services were ran on their own hardware or hardware leased to them by their college with full access opened up from their ISP because everyone had a static IP at the time. Self-hosting wasn't just the norm, it existed for almost everyone. It wasn't until a bit later where ISPs stopped offering this and services like Geocities popped up. The exceptions were established businesses who had their own hardware to handle their service.

the part about early internet experience they forget to mention is the part where you go outside and not use a computer for most of the day

Your first mistake is assuming these people are stupid. They know exactly what they're doing and are deliberately insidious.

Just like all those pooners claiming 4cuck oldtroon culture, these trannies are retconning the cool-but-problematic past as part of the Eternal Present, and vilify all evidence to the contrary, including living people like you guys. But remember, the truth is on your side; much like with everything else, bringing it up makes their fiction collapse and causes meltdowns. If anyone wants to drop that fake shit and actually RETVRN, so to say, they will seek out spaces like this and their knowledge on their own.

i am the frutiger aero. that means zoomer are obsessed of me.

NIGGER NIGGER NIGGER NIGGER NIGGER

now they are racists

educate people instead of making fun of them and youll achieve what you seek. you are all assholes

sometimes education requires being a little harsh to get the message across. maybe if you had a growth mindset you could be freed from your shackles rather than having artificial rookie arrogance that will get you nowhere in life

mhmmm

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