Subj : Re: mastodon
To   : AKAcastor
From : n2qfd
Date : Thu Apr 11 2024 19:23:27

Did you see Bohemian Rhapsody Chris? 
  There was an element of Freddy Mercury that I think they tried to play up in that Queen was a band for all the folks who were standing around the walls and at the back of the other concerts. 
  I find there's a lot of that in this new federated space we're all exploring together. It was different when I was a teen and maybe more applicable as that's the age one feel the wallflower I suppose. Well, we grew up but didn't forget it and I think there's some honest ability to craft the space we want and as you pointed out there's a new generation who are getting a taste of this too. 
  I've been playing with Gemini this week and started a page  (capsule) for the BBS for a learning exercise. There's this nice Welsh fellow Wil who's got a server called Capsule.Town hosting and he spelled out some how too's really nicely. https://wilw.dev/ and his capsule gemini://wilw.capsule.town
  I think people are quick to write off the experiments in parallels to Big Internet but I'm not convinced that Smol Internet is a fad either. And there's something really nice about ending up here, looking around and seeing that you're not the only one. That was perhaps the best part of the BBS thing when I was a teen in a small town in the 90's. It's hard to explain to younger folks that the only streaming audio was FM radio and what a drunken bender the Napster days were because we just didn't have anything like that and took absolute advantage of it. I was lucky to have folks who embraced diversity in a rather insular area. I saw Akira in Japanese because my dad had a friend in Taiwan and mailed a VHS. Heck I had parents willing to shell out to get a VHF unit (mostly my mom who loved mini series like the Thornbirds and wasn't missing it because she was a nurse and worked late hours) because they loved technology. My parents were admonished, told they ruined my future by my grade school teachers because I knew my alphabet in Kindergarten as we had an early PC (an Interact and later a TI-99) and I learned the keyboard! Destroyed my chances at a quality education! Things were different, and often you felt the freak for not fitting in and the BBS's let us look over the valley walls and be reassured, there was indeed a larger world out there. 

  Mal/N2QFD

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