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    The fediverse gets me excited about the Internet for the first time in a long while, warts and all.

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      Agreed, after spending time on here not being hounded by ads and tech company jargon, I see what a online social network should be like. Not motivated by profit, but rather community

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      It’s telling how new the reddit userbase is that they don’t know the histories of it. In for the first part of reddits existence it was full of warts. There was a saying, 402 it went through 404 try once more. Because reddit sucked at submitting comments so you had to keep retrying at times. Down times were so often too.

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      I think the last time I felt excited about the Internet was when Firefox was released.