Awww, thats genuinely really lovely, I’m so pleased to hear it’s gone really well for them

Gotcha. Yeah I choose to use Mastodon, I’d much rather support the open community built option than the option built by a company with a profit motive, I just try to stay in the loop about stuff

Thanks for the answer :)

Did something specific already happen with Bluesky, or are people just expecting it because VC vultures now have their claws in it?

Huh, learned something today, thanks for the explanation

Thats fair. I’d guess it probably helps get people to contribute, since it’s a community-run kinda thing

Thanks for the links!

Gotcha. I understand why they chose to do it that way, but I do kinda wish it was possible to just follow someone

Thank you very much for the link/explanation!

I was really surprised how much I liked some of the stuff that came on, there were some seriously cool tracks that played and I had a great time jamming out to it

Thanks for sharing links for folks to contribute!

The three music radio stations have been, but the words channel has not yet.

I’ll probably go take another look at adding it at some point but it seemed like a pain on mobile

Thats honestly fuckin dope. I use google home automation for helping manage a medical condition and at some point I really wanna switch to home assistant

Are you getting a captcha to view radiofreefedi.net? I’m sorry it’s giving you trouble, I fuckin hate those :(

Huh, that makes sense. Someday I need to sit down and learn all the shit vlc let’s you do. Some of it seems like it’d be helpful to me if I actually knew how to use it 😅

You’re very welcome :) have a good one!

You’re very welcome :) hope you have a good one!

I didn’t know you could use VLC for internet radio! Nifty ☺️

Thought I’d comment to add: if you’re on android and enjoy using F-droid apps Transistor, and URL Radio are two great apps for listening to internet radio stations like radiofreefedi

I think URL radio is just a fork that was updated to material design 3, but transistor seems more actively maintained :)

So, I find people talking about blue sky confusing; if I search for a bluesky user to follow via Mastodon, I don’t see them come up. Does that just mean my server isn’t federated with them? I’m on mastodon.online, which I think is one of the biggest instances.

It’d be cool if I could actually interact with blue sky but it’s really not clear to me how it works if I don’t have a blue sky account and am interacting externally

In what way is mastodon a bad twitter alternative?

I love Mastodon, but I never actually used twitter much so I don’t have much of a sense for why Mastodon might not be comparable

You’re so very welcome my friend, your voice and perspective are appreciated!

Take care 😊

I really appreciate you taking the time to write out your thoughts and share what you think made the old internet different from what we have today.

I’m 25, and never experienced any of what people talk about as “the old internet”. I didn’t even get to Reddit until it was already on the decline.

With many of the ways the world is changing, I think it’s important to consider not just what we want of our future, but also what we wish to keep of our past. And because you experienced a chapter of the internet’s history that I haven’t, you fundamentally have a perspective that I don’t, and that I really value you sharing a little bit of with me.

This post gave me a lot to reflect on, regarding what I agree with and whatnot, and I really hope this conversation regarding the Fediverse continues. We can build something that looks forward while learning from what was special about the past, and that starts with trying to understand what made it that way.

I appreciate your time, hope you have a lovely day today