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.. title: Three years later
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.. slug: three-years-later
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.. date: 2023-08-12
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.. tags: blogging,internet
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.. category: PesceWanda
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.. link:
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.. description:
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.. type: text
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More than three years have passed since my last blogpost. I used
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to believe that a more hectic life would provide me with a
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surplus of things to write about. While that holds true, the flip side
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is that I now find myself with less and less time for writing.
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Let's be honest, it's not just that. I have been growing a little bit
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unsatisfied with the current evolution of the corporate web.
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I have already touched this topic when I stopped using reddit for good
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([here, in
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italian](https://francescomecca.eu/blog/2018/3/27/addio-reddit/)) but
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I really stopped to reflect when
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~~AOL-Time-Warner-Pepsico-Viacom-Halliburton-Skynet-Toyota-Trader-Joe's~~Microsoft
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bought Github. At the time I removed the dust from my personal git
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server and moved most of my stuff there. For more than a year now my
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GitHub heatmap has remained empty, despite it being one of the
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platforms where I used to engage the most frequently.
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It's not that I'm exposed to more sunlight these days: I still utilize
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the internet, albeit in a more pseudonymous manner now.
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As I mastered the art of evading the corporate web everyday I
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gallivanted my way across three relocations: from Paris to London and
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finally to Amsterdam. My faithful companion through it all? None other
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than my (t)rusty server. I bid adieu to all of the social networks in favor
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of selfhosted and federated solutions. Email is now king in my social
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online life but I still indulge lurking on the orange site.
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A bunch of good friends joined me on this adventure, and we formed a
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close-knit community around the services we host ourselves. We
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interact daily through our servers. We also worked on a few art
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projects, if you'll permit the exageration, embodying the essence of the bygone web era.
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The pièce de résistance among these creations can
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be accessed by playfully prodding at my IP address.
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To be continued.
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