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Yes, this happens when you don't curate your feed and accept the default feed provided by the companies. For example I checked out some artists in Instagram (th

by genman 3y ago

Yes, this happens when you don't curate your feed and accept the default feed provided by the companies. For example I checked out some artists in Instagram (that I don't use regularly) and I observed that closing the artist page will redirect onto main page instead of closing the app and this main page is filled with "engaging" garbage I really should not have any interest in. If you are not actively seeking for something then you will not find it. There still exits very unique content but it indeed is very often hidden in some closed Facebook forum that is not visible for search (e.g. googling). There is interesting content that does not surface by itself because it is not shared by masses but a lot of such content has also died when people have shut down their personal web pages or have lost access to them or the service they used has ceased to exist.

asdff 3y ago
The author was getting at the fact that you are on instagram or facebook, rather than a unique website with its own ideas and sensibilities. That used to be the norm a decade or two ago: people wouldn't have a smattering of accounts they'd follow on a single platform, but a smattering of independent websites they'd visit. At least for me, those days felt a lot more exciting on the web.
- genman 3y ago
  I certainly agree with you but a lot of that content got archived (and some of it is still directly available) but if for example Facebook would become extinct then a lot of content held there will follow without any rescue. A lot of niche content in now on Facebook in some groups or now even worse, in some group chats, or in closed groups or even worse, invite only groups. The content might be there but it is incredibly difficult to discover (it was once called a deep web https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_web https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_web).
  - jauntywundrkind 3y ago
    Finding little nuggets of content feels totally different than what the author is talking about to me, where it feltmlile there were whole other worlds out there. Parker had built her own little microcosm. The web was more distinct weird different experiences, poorly connected, than it was anything else. In some ways this article is about the end of a digital dualism. There used to be different spheres, where the digital was it's own place & was voyaged into. Now the bleed over between the physical and information space is immense. Sure we can still have some voyaging and disocovery, but what you are describing is more like using a metal detector to look for anonymous bits, rather than jaunting around across little infospheres. There is no digital dualism.

by genman 3y ago

asdff 3y ago

The author was getting at the fact that you are on instagram or facebook, rather than a unique website with its own ideas and sensibilities. That used to be the norm a decade or two ago: people wouldn't have a smattering of accounts they'd follow on a single platform, but a smattering of independent websites they'd visit. At least for me, those days felt a lot more exciting on the web.

genman 3y ago
I certainly agree with you but a lot of that content got archived (and some of it is still directly available) but if for example Facebook would become extinct then a lot of content held there will follow without any rescue. A lot of niche content in now on Facebook in some groups or now even worse, in some group chats, or in closed groups or even worse, invite only groups. The content might be there but it is incredibly difficult to discover (it was once called a deep web https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_web https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_web).
- jauntywundrkind 3y ago
  Finding little nuggets of content feels totally different than what the author is talking about to me, where it feltmlile there were whole other worlds out there. Parker had built her own little microcosm. The web was more distinct weird different experiences, poorly connected, than it was anything else. In some ways this article is about the end of a digital dualism. There used to be different spheres, where the digital was it's own place & was voyaged into. Now the bleed over between the physical and information space is immense. Sure we can still have some voyaging and disocovery, but what you are describing is more like using a metal detector to look for anonymous bits, rather than jaunting around across little infospheres. There is no digital dualism.