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Re:Mastodon Is Doomed by Dma54rhs on Wednesday April 26, 2023 @11:56AM (#35715801)
The people who were first online didn't represent the average person. Everyone's online now, it used to be a bunch of geeks and weirdos back then. I'm nostalgic as well but the times have changed.
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Re:Mastodon Is Doomed by giantrobot on Wednesday April 26, 2023 @01:13PM (#35717009)
This is very ahistorical. There's long been consumer non-geek friendly online services. The typical AOL user in the 90s wasn't a geek by any means. They used chat rooms, instant messaging, and mailing lists via the user friendly AOL interface.

Facebook has long provided a user-friendly interface for non-geek users. It's filled with non-geeks generating content.

While the Internet has always had a geek contingent it hasn't been the exclusive domain of geeks for nearly thirty years.

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