Bots drove us off the conventional web.
We still had to pay bills, interact with services or government, but it ceased being a place of community as the costs to run sites and fight spam and model training exploded.
Our refugee communities fractured. Some of us went back to BBSes, IRC, or Gopher; some tried to make Gemini and Reticulum work.
But when we coalesced around the Next Place, it clicked. And we swore never to name it here. What cannot be named, cannot be harvested.
#MicroFiction
Venya (he/him/dude) 🇺🇦
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