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?
The difference is that wikipedia still has this “all of the hallways look the same” feeling (which to be clear is good for an encyclopedia), to me it doesnt really feel like the old web. IMO, the fediverse and Hacker News (news.ycombinator.com) are the only things left of it.