The language of the blog post is extremely bitter, self-aggrandizing and mocking, and points out hypocrisy that isn't there -- it's just multiple different groups of people who enjoy different things. There are zoomers that chat in XMPP, subscribe to RSS feeds and use other decentralized tech, and there are many that are not, there are those who enjoy frutiger aero look and feel and there are many that do not, and these groups may or may not overlap. You complain about being banned from some discord for advocating the use of XMPP, and I really can't blame them if you came there with the same tone and ego that you put on display with this post.

If you want people to listen to you and want to spread the values of decentralization and freedom you shouldn't be pouring hot oil on them from your ivory tower and then complain about how they are so dumb to mistreat and misunderstand you.

It mostly seems like the author is ruining it for himself.

While I agree this seems overly bitter, the idea of such "pseudo-nostalgia" both fascinates and puzzles me. I get normal nostalgia for things from one's own youth, but not for things you never experienced. Not that this is limited to Zoomers being into (an idea) of Internet culture they never new - people too young to have experienced either the 1950s or 1960s often have wildly romantic idealized concepts of these decades for example.

Wow, why is this dude so fucking angry?

>green meme arrows

Ah, I see.

The old internet is mostly dead and many of us in this community are to blame.

Nerd culture sold out - stock options won out over hacker ethics. What was once an emerging space of digital freedom has become a tightly controlled corporate dystopia, but hey, some of us drive fancy cars now!