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While these things may or may not be interesting developments in the infrastructure of the internet, it doesn't really counteract what OP is saying. Streamlined

by hucker 11y ago

While these things may or may not be interesting developments in the infrastructure of the internet, it doesn't really counteract what OP is saying. Streamlined, boring, closed garden social networks and ad-filled "news". And only the techies are left on the IRC servers :(

kordless 11y ago
I tell you what is boring: people voting down responses because they don't agree with them and then having nothing to contribute other than a lame rationalization. Better?
- hucker 11y ago
  You have kind of a point there, the advent of {up,down}voting on sites adds to the dullness by putting disincentives on controversial speech. HN is slightly better, but reddit it a great example of this. The most visible content is the lowest common denominator of comments, often cringy jokes and quips. While 4chan has its fair share of issues, the content is often interesting (to me) because they don't rank posts at all. EDIT: And for the record I didn't downvote you, I'm not even allowed :/
  - kordless 11y ago
    I implied you downvoted me, but shouldn't have. Apologies. It was a blaming statement because I colluded the downvote with the 'rationalizations'. To clarify my original post a bit, I would say that the Internet is infrastructure, and that changes in that infrastructure give way to changes in the way it is used for all sorts of things. Once a good amount of decentralization with infrastructure happens, we're going to see really interesting use-cases popping up. Robot vacuums with cryptowallets to keep themselves updated, for example.
- gaius 11y ago
  Nothing cloud is community. Cloud is corporate. Cloud is the new mainframe. This is about the new Fidonet.
  - kordless 11y ago
    > me: siri, what do you know about fidonet? > siri: FidoNet is a worldwide computer network. It uses a store-and-forward system to exchange private (email) and public (forum) messages between the BBSes in the network... > me: so it's sorta like what I said earlier? > siri: i don't understand > me: that's ok, nobody else does either.

by hucker 11y ago

kordless 11y ago

I tell you what is boring: people voting down responses because they don't agree with them and then having nothing to contribute other than a lame rationalization. Better?

hucker 11y ago
You have kind of a point there, the advent of {up,down}voting on sites adds to the dullness by putting disincentives on controversial speech. HN is slightly better, but reddit it a great example of this. The most visible content is the lowest common denominator of comments, often cringy jokes and quips. While 4chan has its fair share of issues, the content is often interesting (to me) because they don't rank posts at all. EDIT: And for the record I didn't downvote you, I'm not even allowed :/
- kordless 11y ago
  I implied you downvoted me, but shouldn't have. Apologies. It was a blaming statement because I colluded the downvote with the 'rationalizations'. To clarify my original post a bit, I would say that the Internet is infrastructure, and that changes in that infrastructure give way to changes in the way it is used for all sorts of things. Once a good amount of decentralization with infrastructure happens, we're going to see really interesting use-cases popping up. Robot vacuums with cryptowallets to keep themselves updated, for example.
gaius 11y ago
Nothing cloud is community. Cloud is corporate. Cloud is the new mainframe. This is about the new Fidonet.
- kordless 11y ago
  > me: siri, what do you know about fidonet? > siri: FidoNet is a worldwide computer network. It uses a store-and-forward system to exchange private (email) and public (forum) messages between the BBSes in the network... > me: so it's sorta like what I said earlier? > siri: i don't understand > me: that's ok, nobody else does either.