EmeraldNova
Pluto Supporter
It's starting to look like the age of internet social media stability is starting to wind down. Facebook is exclusively for boomers and conspiracy nuts, Youtube comments are a cesspool, Instagram and Snapchat are too vapid for real long term communication, Musk is burning Twitter to the ground, TikTok is a Chinese intelligence asset, and despite Reddit jannies folding like patio furniture over losing a crumb of their pathetic power, they are right that the new changes will make the site more ungovernable once the API pricing kicks off all the useful mod tools. I hope Reddit can get flooded with shock images like the good old days of internet trolling.
I started out on the internet around the time when DSL was just starting to become relevant. I was never super big on forums, but I enjoyed seeing some communities pop up. I had a shareware copy of Duke Nukem II and Descent, a paid for copy of Doom I didn't really touch (skill issue.) I was a regular browser of Newgrounds, Albino Black Sheep, Kill Frog, and the other flash game hosts. I got my news from Fark, Gamespy (incidentally, the stories leading up to this Daily Victim post are some of my favorites,) sometimes Digg. My first social media profile was on MySpace. I got my fan fiction from media miner, not fanfiction, and some of those stories I still reread today. I learned HTML making websites on Geocities, and liked to navigate around the Sonic Webrings, spent some time on Sonic HQ enjoying the autoplaying midis. I recall spending Y2K on the internet, which may or may not be some form of irony.
Since I never got into actually posting on forums or IRC, I didn't get to connect to Sega Xtreme until very late, 2019, when I was introduced to the community by Ponut64 and XL2. Going back and seeing how many of these sites I mentioned have fundamentally changed if not shut down or died, it's comforting to see such a strong sense of continuity within the community and its stewards. We have more than two decades of history on this site. Granted, most of us hang out on discord much more these days. Sega Xtreme is more than just a homebrew development resource, it's an actual community. I just wanted to write a rambling appreciation post for dibz, and by association Ice Digger, for keeping the lights on and making sure no matter how much the internet changes, there's at least some place I can call home on the internet. I want this forum and community to outlive me if possible.
Now that I'm basically off Reddit, Twitter, Facebook, and most other social websites aging past their prime, I'm going to make an effort to actually post here more when I want to air my thoughts.
Anyway, SX Mastodon server when?
I started out on the internet around the time when DSL was just starting to become relevant. I was never super big on forums, but I enjoyed seeing some communities pop up. I had a shareware copy of Duke Nukem II and Descent, a paid for copy of Doom I didn't really touch (skill issue.) I was a regular browser of Newgrounds, Albino Black Sheep, Kill Frog, and the other flash game hosts. I got my news from Fark, Gamespy (incidentally, the stories leading up to this Daily Victim post are some of my favorites,) sometimes Digg. My first social media profile was on MySpace. I got my fan fiction from media miner, not fanfiction, and some of those stories I still reread today. I learned HTML making websites on Geocities, and liked to navigate around the Sonic Webrings, spent some time on Sonic HQ enjoying the autoplaying midis. I recall spending Y2K on the internet, which may or may not be some form of irony.
Since I never got into actually posting on forums or IRC, I didn't get to connect to Sega Xtreme until very late, 2019, when I was introduced to the community by Ponut64 and XL2. Going back and seeing how many of these sites I mentioned have fundamentally changed if not shut down or died, it's comforting to see such a strong sense of continuity within the community and its stewards. We have more than two decades of history on this site. Granted, most of us hang out on discord much more these days. Sega Xtreme is more than just a homebrew development resource, it's an actual community. I just wanted to write a rambling appreciation post for dibz, and by association Ice Digger, for keeping the lights on and making sure no matter how much the internet changes, there's at least some place I can call home on the internet. I want this forum and community to outlive me if possible.
Now that I'm basically off Reddit, Twitter, Facebook, and most other social websites aging past their prime, I'm going to make an effort to actually post here more when I want to air my thoughts.
Anyway, SX Mastodon server when?
