Bluesky an' clear: the social media app that will definitely last forever

Don't tell FediTips (@fedit✧✧✧@ms✧✧✧.soc✧✧✧), who insists that being on a big server (specifically, mastodon.social – the one I'm on), is bad for Reasons ("it just recreates the centralized experience," or something); and the ethical thing when joining Mastodon is to be on a small, boutique server.

(ha, weird, I didn't know those redactions would be triggered)

I had a different Mastodon account earlier in the year (before shutting it down and rejoining more recently) – that server would have an hour or two of downtime most nights, it was absurd.

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I won't let this slander pass - Usenet was distributed exactly to avoid anyone being able to close a part of it down by taking their ball and going home.

It also spawned ILX, for better or worse.

Yeah tbh I liked Usenet as well. I was just shortcutting to "very oldschool user" trope.

Finally on: ephender.bsky.social

wait usenet spawned ilx?? i thought new york london paris munich / freaky trigger spawned ilx because wordpress comments didn’t work

Right, but a significant portion of the Freaky Trigger nucleus came from alt.music.alternative

Ned was a mainstay of a.m.a in the early 90s

Even pre alt.music.alternative was rec.music.misc, which had some future ILXors (including me).

Or maybe they were concurrent, but I remember us abandoning r.m.m for a.m.a when the former started to become more spam than content (which happened to a.m.a as well).

yeah I was a Usenet head from about 1992 to 2007 or so - this is the only place which has a similar vibe.

My Usenet haunts back in the day was alt.techsupport.recovery and aus.gothic.

Years worth of inane dribble, lost to the ether. Well not completely lost - its all still there in Google Groups but the weird formatitng makes it impossible to follow really.

sorry it was aus.culture.gothic. Confusing my Usenet and my IRC!

alt.music.pearl-jam babyee

bendy and i were on alt.music.chapel-hill

man rec.bicycles.racing got increasingly astonishingly hostile and weird and insider-y after i'd been around there for a couple years, like late 90s, it def made me unlikely to branch out or stay.

this is true of literally every usenet group I ever saw tho

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maybe those two groups are complete but google only archived a fraction of Usenet posts overall (another reason that following threads is often impossible)

Yeah sorry when I say its "all still there" it of course likely isnt, but I've certainly been able to find plenty of the 99-2002 era I was posting. And yeah a lot of threading's broken/mucked up.

Unfortunately for years now it's all been a wasteland of spam and porn and porn spam.

congrats to Ned on doing numbers

Unfortunately for years now it's all been a wasteland of spam and porn and porn spam.

congrats to Ned on doing numbers

It has been a DAY.

i think youre forgetting about whos really important here, the christian baby

very disappointed Ned's first plug wasn't ilx

how is christian babby formed

blimey, now albini is moving in on the parachuting baby chaos.
was a weird 5 mins when i woke up and checked my bluesky app this morning to say the least.

Roffle.

wait is the baby parachute thing really based on a quora question? like that's some content starvation stuff

yeah and apparently its a series

https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:mxbft4m75i7frqznbpvimsza/bafkreiddmslo366z3ey4o4inpdvht6yfkr5522mmnuclfh3qgcrerckjya@jpeg

the wording is a bit unclear but it appears to be asking if you would it a home run with a christian baby or just a sac fly

the original via ned for those not up on the latest blue sky news https://bsky.app/profile/nedraggett.bsky.social/post/3ke5ypctefc2o

https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:kqdyhnklmmv34nmml6btyqv6/bafkreibenzfhi547b2xtqcv53af3vuisvls3lum5f2emchmra2aw6cduau@jpeg

these are the dumbest things and I really wanna expound at great length on how poisoned the view of God they propose is. the "for money" one is a no-brainer and so's the other one. God's omniscient. he knows you renounced Jesus because the baby made you do it to save both of your lives, He's not mad because He's not a child. Godalfuckinmighty this shit chafes me. I did what I had to do and when the kid grew up he apologized, we're square now.

those aren't the baseball words, I'm reasonably confident

Supposedly the original poster of these and similar nonsense is a really vicious and hateful troll, which sounds about right, sadly.

Lie to the baby to get it to pull the chute, then explain how this proves there is no God once safely on the ground.

id be like sure whatever you want skydiving talking baby ive never seen any shit like this before

smh why not try engaging the baby in rational debate

j/k, I don't negotiate with babies

j/k, I don't negotiate with babies

to be fair, most parents don't.

id be like sure whatever you want skydiving talking baby ive never seen any shit like this before

yeah this. oh wow mr. baby you just exploded the whole concept of reality and there's no way we're not living in a simulation now, sure, I renounce all gods high and low, I sing the body electric, what fuckin ever

I’d be all “how are things at E*TRADE these days”

"hello are you the boss baby"

quora's always been a trip to look at for different reasons but now there seems to be a whole lot of trolling

Yeah it’s jumped the baby shark

https://bsky.app/profile/bsky.app/post/3ked2oybdjf2k