Thanks for posting! I’m slow on the uptake on this one!

4/4. The history bears out @jennydeluxe.bsky.social point - change is inevitable. And as platforms wax and wane communties are of different minds about who stays, who goes and who tries to build bridges amongts them all. You can read more about this history in my book Black Software a.co/d/cBNl9VC

3/4. Some couldn’t quite find their people in the new web universe. For others, it didn’t deliver the same thrill of learning a new skill (both the tactile experience of manipulating hardware) and the coding to engage and build early software).

2/4. Many Black users who had since the mid to late 80s built strong communities on BBS, then UseNet, struggled with what to do with the advent of the WWW. Many made the seamlessly made he transition. But many did not, just for the reason that “things just wasn’t the same.”

@CNN Clear p.3

@CNN Clear p.2

Identity & power have always shaped our technologies in ways that have ALREADY irreparably harmed those with particular identities, including some of those among those exceptional “sunflowers” as @hypervisible.bsky.social called them :) - that schmidt was speaking to in that Princeton crowd.

LOL

Good point. I forget about the styrofoam!