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Ephemera. I miss living in New York City because of the street art. The web would benefit from open air ephemerality. Real ephemerality, not "your photos and v
by nessunodoro 7y ago
Ephemera. I miss living in New York City because of the street art.
The web would benefit from open air ephemerality. Real ephemerality, not "your photos and videos disappear to our digital vault, probably forever." Also:
> Passwords are optional.
This makes me happy.
- Loughla 7y agoThis sentiment is actually what originally drew me to places like 4chan on the internet. If you miss it, you just miss it. I felt like I legit HAD to be on the board or else I would miss the best joke or thread. No idea what that's called. Maybe hipsterism? I liked to know that what I'm seeing is authentic, real, and limited (even if it was technically available to everyone in the world).
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- unkulunkulu 7y agoImmediacy?
- nessunodoro 7y agotemporal uniqueness. Art in a museum is locked in a gated vault, like a website is locked to a version number. Ephemera is when you walk past your favorite street art and a piece of the pasted image was scraped or defaced, or when another artist or rando with a pen or a can added something in response. An ephemeral website is one that you hope will be different when you refresh it. There's an element of chance and the content is the reward. To an extent, aggregators have long embodied this characteristic I feel.
- sp332 7y agoFOMO - Fear Of Missing Out. Edit: I was going to add "gnostic" but I can't find a dictionary to back up my definition. What I mean is a hierarchy based on secret knowledge.
- barbs 7y agoConversely, that feeling is what turned me off 4chan (and incidentally snapchat). I prefer to read the cream of the crop on best of 4chan threads elsewhere. Different strokes I guess