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I wish there was an easier way to uniformly rewrite links across applications, one which annoys me is Reddit - they seem incapable of consistently linking to co

I wish there was an easier way to uniformly rewrite links across applications, one which annoys me is Reddit - they seem incapable of consistently linking to content on their own site, some could be fixed with a greasemonkey script but that doesn't work on mobile or across apps. But this is part of a wider pattern of the internet becoming deep fried, instead of a link we get a short code to a facebook page with a bot reposting tiktok videos of a phone screen-recording of an editorialized livestream of somebody watching a screen-recording of the video on youtube - and ofcourse it starts half way through then loops round again and plays twice with three sets of black bands, content creator @names, watermarks, wifi & signal indicators etc. If we could all do one thing to help stop the spread of this cancer, that would be great: de-duplication via content addressable links / tags. But it'll never happen.

nonrandomstring 4y ago
> the internet becoming deep fried Good phrase. I've frequently heard the term "Kentucky Fried Education" applied to the decay of schools and universities under the influence of big-tech mediocrity. My Digital Vegan response would be that "heavily processed" content harms your intellectual health because it's not fresh and has no vitamins :) Ted Nelson anticipated this "death by indirection". Some of his early writings on hypertext still seem like they're from a future we might one day get to. The idea that links should be bi-directional, and how different the Internet would be, is still mind-blowing. Most of the problems you describe stem from the mediating platforms being fundamentally controlling and dishonest. Everything is a work-around to around a work-around... all the way down. > will never happen I get the shrugging cynicism. But to me it's a good thing they're too broken to change. Let these festering sewers of low-quality content digest themselves and make room for new growth.
- ianai 4y ago
  Couldn't a bi-directional link still be written into HTML? Like any other tag, it could simply go unused while being available so nobody feels obligated.
  - nonrandomstring 4y ago
    I'm not sure. It seems a reasonable question. I think the obstacle is the browser monopoly. For the same reasons the "semantic web" and RDF knowledge tri-graphs failed in the wild - the current paradigm is frozen in a "works for me" state of arrested development. You could theoretically build this behind the existing "web" but it would get no critical purchase.

nonrandomstring 4y ago

> the internet becoming deep fried Good phrase. I've frequently heard the term "Kentucky Fried Education" applied to the decay of schools and universities under the influence of big-tech mediocrity. My Digital Vegan response would be that "heavily processed" content harms your intellectual health because it's not fresh and has no vitamins :) Ted Nelson anticipated this "death by indirection". Some of his early writings on hypertext still seem like they're from a future we might one day get to. The idea that links should be bi-directional, and how different the Internet would be, is still mind-blowing. Most of the problems you describe stem from the mediating platforms being fundamentally controlling and dishonest. Everything is a work-around to around a work-around... all the way down. > will never happen I get the shrugging cynicism. But to me it's a good thing they're too broken to change. Let these festering sewers of low-quality content digest themselves and make room for new growth.

ianai 4y ago
Couldn't a bi-directional link still be written into HTML? Like any other tag, it could simply go unused while being available so nobody feels obligated.
- nonrandomstring 4y ago
  I'm not sure. It seems a reasonable question. I think the obstacle is the browser monopoly. For the same reasons the "semantic web" and RDF knowledge tri-graphs failed in the wild - the current paradigm is frozen in a "works for me" state of arrested development. You could theoretically build this behind the existing "web" but it would get no critical purchase.