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It's not just google. In the past, Mr Joe Blogs was into a passion, he would write about it on his own shoddy blog with gif links to other blogs part of a blog

by keyle 4y ago

It's not just google. In the past, Mr Joe Blogs was into a passion, he would write about it on his own shoddy blog with gif links to other blogs part of a blog ring of nerdy stuff he cares about. Nowadays, Mr Joe Blogs writes on Medium, shares on Facebook and potentially has an outdated instagram account with 4 pictures of his passion. All buried down by algorithm to never be found, because his passion "isn't sexy". The closed web and their algorithms are just as much to blame.

krapp 4y ago
>Nowadays, Mr Joe Blogs writes on Medium, shares on Facebook and potentially has an outdated instagram account with 4 pictures of his passion. All buried down by algorithm to never be found, because his passion "isn't sexy". From what I've observed, the opposite tends to be true more often than not. Plenty of people have been able to create communities around niche interests because platforms bring something independent blogs never really did - an audience. Joe Blogs probably started a subreddit and facebook group for his passion and gets more people reading his content in a week than likely happened to stumble across his blog in a year.
- qzx_pierri 4y ago
  Yeah but you get no independence that way. Slip up and post the wrong "badspeak" phrase of the month? Shadow banned. As long as content is sitting underneath a huge lingering banhammer, the content will never be as raw and authentic as content was back in 2006. This reinforces the echo chamber issue and also makes the internet feel contrived and soulless.
  - krapp 4y ago
    Getting banned isn't an issue for most people, at least not under the politically driven terms you're describing (just look at the kind of extremist content than flies on Twitter), but even thought banning exists (and it did on the "old" web as well) there's still far more authentic content out there than ever. It just happens that the web is more complex than it was in 2006, and far more culturally culturally diverse, and most people can be authentic on the internet now without also being edgelords or pushing the bounds of TOS.

by keyle 4y ago

krapp 4y ago

>Nowadays, Mr Joe Blogs writes on Medium, shares on Facebook and potentially has an outdated instagram account with 4 pictures of his passion. All buried down by algorithm to never be found, because his passion "isn't sexy". From what I've observed, the opposite tends to be true more often than not. Plenty of people have been able to create communities around niche interests because platforms bring something independent blogs never really did - an audience. Joe Blogs probably started a subreddit and facebook group for his passion and gets more people reading his content in a week than likely happened to stumble across his blog in a year.

qzx_pierri 4y ago
Yeah but you get no independence that way. Slip up and post the wrong "badspeak" phrase of the month? Shadow banned. As long as content is sitting underneath a huge lingering banhammer, the content will never be as raw and authentic as content was back in 2006. This reinforces the echo chamber issue and also makes the internet feel contrived and soulless.
- krapp 4y ago
  Getting banned isn't an issue for most people, at least not under the politically driven terms you're describing (just look at the kind of extremist content than flies on Twitter), but even thought banning exists (and it did on the "old" web as well) there's still far more authentic content out there than ever. It just happens that the web is more complex than it was in 2006, and far more culturally culturally diverse, and most people can be authentic on the internet now without also being edgelords or pushing the bounds of TOS.