I’ve been exploring the fediverse and subbing and posting all over the damn place. Realizing lemmy can federate with kbin blew my mind. Not to mention the possibility of turning my old laptop into a personal server to host my own instance. Is this what it felt like to discover how the internet worked in the 90s?
You didn’t have massive social media sites acting like hubs for the whole internet, predicting what you might want to read or watch. You had to know what you wanted and seek it out yourself. Communities were mostly niche forums with limited crossover.