DaseinPickle@leminal.space to Fediverse@lemmy.worldEnglish · 26 days agoThe rebellion will be federatedelenarossini.comexternal-linkmessage-square38fedilinkarrow-up1222arrow-down110
arrow-up1212arrow-down1external-linkThe rebellion will be federatedelenarossini.comDaseinPickle@leminal.space to Fediverse@lemmy.worldEnglish · 26 days agomessage-square38fedilink
minus-squaresolrize@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·26 days agoIt’s great to see you here, but you should have been around for Usenet. :)
minus-squareElena Rossini ⁂@mastodon.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up2·26 days ago@solrize someone here told me about the concept of Eternal September (I think it was @nimi) and I was so fascinated by it, I ended down a Usenet rabbit hole… which prompted me to get a Raspberry Pi 5, install Ubuntu on it and begin to learn Linux 🤗
minus-squaresolrize@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·26 days agoNice! But Usenet is almost dead now. 30 years ago it was like Reddit without advertising and without Spez :). I think you’re doing the right thing having your own site. Lemmy has its attractions but is disappointing in some ways.
minus-squaresolrize@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·edit-225 days agoBy the way, if you want to learn about free software as a political movement, you should check into the history of the GNU project.
minus-squareElena Rossini ⁂@mastodon.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up2·26 days ago@solrize will do, thanks! 🙏
minus-squaresolrize@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·25 days agoThis book (free downloads available) is a good start: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_Software,_Free_Society
It’s great to see you here, but you should have been around for Usenet. :)
@solrize someone here told me about the concept of Eternal September (I think it was @nimi) and I was so fascinated by it, I ended down a Usenet rabbit hole… which prompted me to get a Raspberry Pi 5, install Ubuntu on it and begin to learn Linux 🤗
Nice! But Usenet is almost dead now. 30 years ago it was like Reddit without advertising and without Spez :).
I think you’re doing the right thing having your own site. Lemmy has its attractions but is disappointing in some ways.
By the way, if you want to learn about free software as a political movement, you should check into the history of the GNU project.
@solrize will do, thanks! 🙏
This book (free downloads available) is a good start:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_Software,_Free_Society
@solrize thank you! 🙏