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I think before we get too caught up in what Bluesky should or shouldn’t be we should soberly acknowledge what it is: a retirement home for 2000s forum millennials
The society of GenX Usenet posters would like a word
theres plenty of space in the bingo hall for all of us
That's because I cast fireball. It's your turn btw.
Thank you for saying this. I remember when Fark was a refuge for Usenetters.
Fark. Now there is a flashback
We're posting on a rebranded alt.alien-vampire.flonk.flonk.flonk
I remember usenet ( I'm a millennial)
The late boomers who married men they met on alt.angst say “hey”
Aren't most of them on Mastodon?
Maybe. It was too grumpy for me.
As the maintainer of the alt.is.too FAQ, I cannot let this slight stand.
We are just crashing the party. All good.
certainly beats being accosted by the poorly thought-out opinions of 19 year olds
This is the only correct response. Thank you for your service
sometimes there's real clever teens on the forums and it's like
I get it, I've been this, you need to be this for a while before you blossom into something better. I just don't have the goddamn time at this point to interact with anything but folks at the end of the process. blessed be the teachers
I absolutely count myself among this group fwiw
it's too boisterous for a retirement home
more like a Valhalla of keyboard warriors.
😡 how dare you write this accurate skeet.
it is known once again, bluesky is a posting retirement community for elder millennials
Bumping into someone you recognise from FYAD / BYOB from 2005 is indeed a sobering science
Experience not science, damnit phone just because I've been skulking around the science feed doesn't mean everything is about science
Sure that I didn't actually mean "sobering science" or sure that everything isn't about science?
Just as Facebook became the shelter for boomers...
Very happy and pleased with past me for liking that the first time
not completely true, I'm a 2000s forum Gen Xer and there are at least four or five of us here too
Where do us ‘former mIRC Undernet Elder Millennials’ check in for our lil Internet Senior Citizen ID Cards? 🫣👾
I had a paid LiveJournal 👵🏻
(“Ok grandma, let’s get you to bed”)
I miss picking The Right Profile Picture To Accompany This Post
EFnet for life, regardless of the constant netsplits leading to losing ops.
*tired creaky salute* We need Kurt Loder to be a bitch and check in on us.
Late 90s chatroom Xennial seeking visibility.
Around 2000's I used both IRC and forums that I found online. Both are mostly gone now.
Soberly doing a lot of heavy lifting here.
Blatant misdirection in many cases.
That's silly. Millennials retiring. Ha!
At least I can actually see real people and real replies here. Unlike a certain other website. 🤣
What do you mean? Everyone on the other site is a real person, with real feelings, who is trying to sell you a REAL guide to getting rich that the FAT CATS don't want you to know! Just follow this 15-step program and give me $20 a month forever and you too can learn how to become rich without trying
(or, you know, it's a real person with real feelings who is real fucking racist and really should shut up)
Well there do seem to be some racists on here too, but at least the ceo aint saying ‘truth’ or ‘interesting’ in their comments. 🤣🤣🤣
