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Re:Living Like It's 99: No Social Media, No Smartphone by goodoldneon on Monday February 22, 2021 @12:50PM (#26227643)
I wonder if a community will form around this philosophy, and we'll end up with a new kind of Amish. Like in the year 2200, there's a group of people called the Seinfeldians who refused to use any technology introduced after 1998
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Re:Living Like It's 99: No Social Media, No Smartphone by fingerlocks on Monday February 22, 2021 @01:17PM (#26228065)
It’s pretty much guaranteed. Live long enough and you witness the cycle of one generation’s legacy become taken for granted by the next, followed by rejection and rediscovery by each subsequent.
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Re:Living Like It's 99: No Social Media, No Smartphone by MaxBarraclough on Monday February 22, 2021 @02:47PM (#26229568)
The kinds of people who'd use SourceHut and Gemini [0] and run a lightweight desktop Linux distro?

RMS is famously unbending in his refusal to use non-Free software. There aren't many like him though.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gemini_(protocol)

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Re:Living Like It's 99: No Social Media, No Smartphone by jefurii on Monday February 22, 2021 @02:19PM (#26229128)
There are the various Tilde.club and similar servers, and SDF.
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Re:Living Like It's 99: No Social Media, No Smartphone by _ezkx on Monday February 22, 2021 @01:20PM (#26228108)
Arguably the "new kind of Amish" are... just the Amish; they've continued to adopt new technologies when they comport with their particular values. Other intensional communities may have different values.

Love "Seinfeldians" :)

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Re:Living Like It's 99: No Social Media, No Smartphone by MaxBarraclough on Monday February 22, 2021 @02:49PM (#26229599)
Interesting, I didn't know that. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amish#Use_of_technology_by_dif...
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