Richard MacManus on Nostr: “What the fediverse currently is, is a countercultural network with little interest ...
“What the fediverse currently is, is a countercultural network with little interest in mainstream pop culture.”
+1. Worth noting that the early Web was also nurtured by “countercultural” types — eg hippies on The Well who went on to found Wired, etc. I even mentioned this today in my post about IUMA in 1994: “Like much of the early Web, it had an anti-establishment feel — one of its goals was to create a distribution alternative to record labels.” https://cybercultural.com/p/iuma-1994/ https://mastodon.social/@fediversereport/113986683719960926
+1. Worth noting that the early Web was also nurtured by “countercultural” types — eg hippies on The Well who went on to found Wired, etc. I even mentioned this today in my post about IUMA in 1994: “Like much of the early Web, it had an anti-establishment feel — one of its goals was to create a distribution alternative to record labels.” https://cybercultural.com/p/iuma-1994/ https://mastodon.social/@fediversereport/113986683719960926