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Post #4204081

2026-07-29 02:25 UTC

@chroma@raccoonisland.social It's not exaggeration to say that a lot of modernity is the way it is specifically because free and open software champions in the early 2000s believed very strongly that they didn't really need to see pictures or hear sounds or use GUIs.

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  • @eruonna@lgbtqia.space 2026-07-29 16:06

    @mhoye@cosocial.ca @chroma@raccoonisland.social but also at the time heavy media usage was an accessibility issue. A lot of folks didn't have internet connections that could support that. For-profit corporations could make their profit from the people who were already there and gamble on access increasing.

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  • @theorangetheme@en.osm.town 2026-07-29 02:56

    @mhoye@cosocial.ca @chroma@raccoonisland.social Personally, I like that. Slack is a godawful nightmare, and all of the shitposts and memes just waste time (at work) anyway. I can't think of any groundbreaking Slack feature that has ever made my job meaningfully easier, other than like... file sharing, I guess. I don't need everyone to use IRC.

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  • @andrewt@mathstodon.xyz 2026-07-29 02:59

    @mhoye@cosocial.ca @chroma@raccoonisland.social yeah, I agree with this — I remember a time before Slack or Discord existed, and nobody except huge nerds used IRC then either. I barely understand it and I had a ZX Spectrum. There's a lot to like about it, but "IRC is unpopular mostly because it's inconvenient" is such a self-evidently true statement it kind of baffles me that anyone could disagree

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