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Hard to tell if you’re joking. If you do actually believe this, I assume you also believe that e-commerce broke everything?
by devin 7y ago
Hard to tell if you’re joking. If you do actually believe this, I assume you also believe that e-commerce broke everything?
- mirimir 7y agoNo, I'm not joking. It's not so much e-commerce that broke everything. Although there were many who did argue that. For me, it's been the shift from self-published (and indeed, self-hosted) to Google, Facebook and cloud services. And the tide turned in the late 90s. Edit: When I first got online, it was AOL, CompuServe, EcoNet and The Well. I was on all of them except AOL. And then we had Usenet and websites. And networks of websites. The prospect of citizen-based journalism. But now we're back to something a lot more like AOL.
- rootw0rm 7y agoor something a lot like Prodigy...
- mirimir 7y agoDamn, forgot Prodigy. I was mainly a CompuServe geek.
- z3t4 7y agoIt has never been more easy to self publish ... via Twitter and Instagram. But the real problem is that you only have 1 hour of free time, spread out in five minute intervals during the day. Being an adult sux.
- mirimir 7y agoThose are all centralized. And trivially censored. I'd rather have stuff like Aether, NotABug, Tor onion sites, and so on.
- BlueTemplar 7y agoThis is NOT self-publishing.
- z3t4 7y agoWhen making home made food, do I also need go grow the wheat myself? eg. do I need to run the server at my house, or can I use a service? Where do you draw the line?
- BlueTemplar 7y agoHow easy is it to move your profile from Twitter/Instagram to another host ?