hit on the idea a while back that people who got their culture from sites like 4chan, SA, LW are best thought of as diaspora communities
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Replying to @alicemazzy
hey I got mine from USENET and then LiveJournal
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Replying to @puellavulnerata @alicemazzy
lonely wanderers helplessly replicating the cultures of individual MUDs
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*narrows eyes* DIku or LP
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LP, of course, much to the dashing of any commercial hopes i may have ever had. it's hilarious how reliable the mapping of Diku, LP and Tiny to red tribe, gray tribe and blue tribe is
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ugh, LP
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Replying to @palecur @chaosprime and
I won't even dignify Tiny by acknowledging it
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Much like Usenet, Tiny* is still over in the corner trucking along, cheerfully indifferent to the rest of the world.
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i still run an LP
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Replying to @chaosprime @palecur and
I'm always really pleased by how 'old' tech almost always still keeps trucking along on the Internet, even if it's not as popular as it was. (Someday we may really need it again.)
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