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Pawlicker's Blog
Personal blog · pleromanonx86.wordpress.comculturehardware
Pawlicker's Blog is a personal blog at pleromanonx86.wordpress.com about culture and hardware. Since 2023, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 8 times, most often “Chasing the Dragon of the Past”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-27, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
The posts cover bridging between Mastodon and Bluesky for the fediverse, and why old internet games and communities do not come back. The comments only link to or quote them.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Random musings about fedi, tech, and internet culture
Most-linked posts?
- Chasing the Dragon of the Past2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-04-15
What Hacker News says?
There's a bridge nowadays, but… see https://pleromanonx86.wordpress.com/2024/02/17/mastodon-date... which also links to https://wedistribute.org/2024/02/tear-down-walls-not-bridges... https://techcrunch.com/2024/02/14/bluesky-and-mastodon-users... and https://news.itsfoss.com/bluesky-mastodon-bridge/
Comment linking /2024/02/17/mastodon-dated-and-broken-by-design/
on “Bluesky announces data federation for self hosters”Submitted Why old games never die, but new ones do as a story · 300 points
HN discussion> Case in point, just look at how Newgrounds famously had a ton of games about shooting Muslims after 9/11 and mimicking South Park’s sense of humor. If you build the old internet in 2024, it’s not going to be the same as the old internet, because the people aren’t there. Or worse, you’re not allowed to be that anymore. https://pleromanonx86.wordpress.com/2024/04/06/chasing-the-d... yeah i think i'm good not returni…
Comment linking /2024/04/06/chasing-the-dragon-of-the-past/
on “Why old games never die, but new ones do”Submitted You've been looking at PC-98 graphics wrong your whole life (2024) as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Two Fediverses, One Network as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted In a long enough timeline, every artist will be forced to take Crypto as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Chasing the Dragon of the Past as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Internet Cycle: A Whitepaper as a story · 1 points
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