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I might phrase it, "whatever is embraced by the masses becomes more appealing to the masses." Broadening in appeal is not necessarily worse, although it's surel
by CobrastanJorji 4y ago
I might phrase it, "whatever is embraced by the masses becomes more appealing to the masses." Broadening in appeal is not necessarily worse, although it's surely worse from the perspective of the initial specialized interest group.
Yes, the Internet of yesteryear was more interesting to our type of people, but it had no appeal whatsoever to anyone else. The world is better off today with an Internet that billions find fun and useful, even if it's way less fun for us specifically.
- fleddr 4y agoHonestly, I think we have a discovery problem. There's plenty of room for both groups. In a way the internet is limitless. A lot of that weirdness still exists, it's just incredibly hard to find.
- CobrastanJorji 4y agoThat's a good point. I'd love to find a small chatroom full of a couple dozen strangers who share my interests, and many thousands of such chatrooms surely exist, but I'd never find one unless I had a friend point me to it.
- jacooper 4y agoI mean, you and me and many other are here on HN, so I think close enough?
- Cr4shMyCar 4y agoThat weirdness does still exist, whether it's kept up from a long time ago or people making brand-new weird stuff. I got into making a site on Neocities, essentially a modern Geocities equivalent, a while back after a friend told me about it. I didn't end up sticking with it too long, but I found so many gloriously weird personal sites, projects, shrines, zines, and fan pages.
- jacooper 4y agoQuick question, what makes Neocities different than Cloudflare/GitHub/GitLab/Codeberg/x Pages? Its just like any static page hosting right? The selling point is its open source?(Codeberg and GitLab are open source.)