All of that being said, I’m just saying it fucking sucks to continuously be a refugee, and what sucks about apps and companies and programs that end up selling out for a dollar is that if you don’t emmigrate to a new platform, you become nothing.

App and companies aren't the only choice. Back in our internet roots you set up your own website to share your views. If you wanted real time chat we had telnet chat and later IRC. Your same telnet client worked on every server. Your browser was able to view every page.

[–] fluffykittycat@slrpnk.net 1 points 1 hour ago

IRC has always been kinda clunky. I've never been able to get into using it and it's always a pain when I find myself having to. Thankfully chat infrastructure is advancing but it's been a step by step process. Making E2EE work right is still not smooth or a guaranteed feature

[–] bizarroland@fedia.io 4 points 5 hours ago (3 children)

If I want to scream into the void, I can do that anywhere and anytime, and I do not need a web server to do it.

To quote Ariel, I want to be where the people are.

[–] fluffykittycat@slrpnk.net 2 points 1 hour ago

This is true. I like being able to talk to people on the internet down hopefully make a friend somewhere along the way. The fact that this is still hard is something we really need to work on. I've just never really felt the need for a personal website, I'm not into blogging or I can probably already have one. I just don't write enough of that level of substance to build myself a Blog of any sort and I'm not really interested in the attention that publishing seems to imply. I like things a bit more casual.

[–] partial_accumen@lemmy.world 3 points 4 hours ago

Thats why you join a web ring with your website.

[–] grue@lemmy.world 3 points 5 hours ago

And to paraphrase Michael Bolton from Office Space, why should we be the ones who have to move? The corporations are the ones who suck!