There was an interesting point made on a podcast yesterday (Struggle Session EP 48 w/ Felix Biederman, i believe) todo with growing up online in the 00's and th

There was an interesting point made on a podcast yesterday (Struggle Session EP 48 w/ Felix Biederman, i believe) todo with growing up online in the 00's and the social experience of being online and being a teenager. Many of us here can likely relate to feeling a bit out of place in our primary edu and the experience of going online to "find your people". Whoever you were comfortable "hanging out with" online, RPG people, emo kids, poets, FPS gamers, programmers, whoever - you could find them online. Thats definitely still true today, but 10-15 years ago we didnt have this convergence of platforms so much. Instead all these communities existed on sites of their own with closer control of their space. The problem today is that everyone is thrown into one bucket, and everyone in that bucket is looking at one another and obsessing over current events (poorly) and using their real names. Platforms are like monoculture farming, and the more decentralized internet of the recent past was more like smaller gardens tended by loving gardeners. Sure, the new internet is more productive, but we can't say its the same thing as the diverse, small garden.