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?
my summation would be “then in September 1993 AOL dumped a ton of new people into USENET and everything started going to shit, and never really stopped.” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AOL#1991–2006:_Internet_age,_Time_Warner_merger