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In ye olden days the whole world didn’t exist. Maps indicated ‘here be dragons’. I feel you though, marginalia, and appreciate your work. I wrote a search engi
by ajani 3y ago
In ye olden days the whole world didn’t exist. Maps indicated ‘here be dragons’.
I feel you though, marginalia, and appreciate your work. I wrote a search engine too once and after a few months of me not using it myself, gave up. My results were too specific and not broad enough to include the world.
- asim 3y ago> In ye olden days the whole world didn’t exist This! Why is it everything we build is to communicate with the world? The reality is we live in a certain physical space, we can only see, hear and speak at a certain distance and while technology has enabled a way to overcome that, it does feel like we're overwhelmed by the scale of humans we can communicate with. I want to go back to real, small, private connection. Hence micro.
- bombcar 3y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subsidiarity https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subsidiarity > Subsidiarity is a principle of social organization that holds that social and political issues should be dealt with at the most immediate or local level that is consistent with their resolution. Even if the whole world isn't built this way, much of it could be, especially groups and interactions.
- ajani 3y agoYou know what’s really truly private? It’s what you said. The real world. Meet a friend. It’s as private as it gets. Pick a small friend for true micro experience. :D Jokes aside, unplug. And it doesn’t have to be that we build things at a world scale. But isn’t it amazing that we can and do build stuff at this scale. Devs often don’t use tech as much as regular users! They build, and forget the use.
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- marginalia_nu 3y agoWell yeah, sure. The world still doesn't really exist. At least not in any where we can comprehend it. Since it is almost certainly incomprehensible and probably not even possible to capture the world as it is, then isn't the second best to build something that is nice?
- ajani 3y agoAw come on now, don’t play coy, you know what I meant :) That just as we went from hunting and gathering to farms and now cities, internet grew from a few people having access in universities and some tech corporations, to now phones in the hands of children in villages. Let’s be more inclusive and dare I say progressive even? I, for one, am not hankering to gather and hunt.