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davidmurdoch 3y ago
> This project is making the commercial web more bearable, but I'd rather spend my energy on making the non-commercial web more attractive. Sounds like they got bored.
- mock-possum 3y ago
  ‘Bored’ isn’t what I’d read into this - it sounds more like a shift in priorities to me.
- ramon156 3y ago
  Inatead of asking for a new maintainer they "shut it down", making it a more attractive project to pick up. Smart
- boesboes 3y ago
  More like 'Frustrated' if you ask me
- 63stack 3y ago
  [flagged]
  - davidmurdoch 3y ago
    Yeah? Well, you know, that's just like, uh, your opinion, man.
    - davidmurdoch 3y ago
      No Big Lebowski fans on HN? The commenter called me a liar, there's just no dialogue worth having with this person.
- nalinidash 3y ago
  > This project is making the commercial web more bearable, but I'd rather spend my energy on making the non-commercial web more attractive. I want to support communities and applications that respect their users and value what we have to say. These websites don't need letsblock.it rules, because they don't shove low-quality content and anti-features down our throats. Does this sound "bored"?
  - davidmurdoch 3y ago
    Yeah, perfectly. That's why I suggested it. It sounds like he was super interested in one thing, 2 years passed, and now he isn't interested in that one thing and wants to do something else. Bored. There's nothing wrong with that. Being bored isn't a bad thing.
    - maxcoder4 3y ago
      I don't think I would call that bored. It's say this project let them grow enough that they realized that what they really want is something different than what they're working on. But to me "bored" sounds like a bad thing, so maybe I'm just arguing semantics.
      - davidmurdoch 3y ago
        Boredom isn't bad; its often how we become creative and create novel things. Not really the same quality of boredom as what I'm talking about, but this video from Veritasium is still relevant, I think: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LKPwKFigF8U https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LKPwKFigF8U
mtlynch 3y ago
>This project is making the commercial web more bearable, but I'd rather spend my energy on making the non-commercial web more attractive. They don't spell it out explicitly, but I think the author realized that they were effectively acting as an enabler. The letsblock.it tool encouraged customers to use workarounds so that they could still continue engaging with big tech companies that are so customer-hostile. Instead, the author is choosing to let big tech make their experience worse, and customers have more incentive to seek out non-commercial alternatives.
- Handprint4469 3y ago
  ding ding ding! Exactly. If the commercial enshittified web bothers you to the point of trying to fix it, at some point you'll realize that it's a quixotic crusade, and that you don't even want to engage with the content offered on these platforms anymore. Why would you? The shittier the platform, the shittier the content. The future of good online interactions is in small, closed, well-maintained and asynchronous communities.
  - nonrandomstring 3y ago
    > Why would you? The shittier the platform, the shittier the content. Paradoxically that's the way some people find salvation. They have to hit the bottom. Instead of making their experience of digital abuse more palatable what they need is more YouTube, more Facebook, more Snapchat, TikTok and Instagram. Until something inside snaps and their soul pukes. I'd totally get it if the author realised they were just prolonging users' misery. As Nietzsche said; "What is shaky, push it!"
  - blindstitch 3y ago
    The last line resonates with me as the discord I hang out in is my only source of good recommendations anymore. Almost all of the good stuff I've seen in the past years comes from there. My algorithmic feeds by comparison are all high-viewcount trash for idiots. That onion article from years ago about the lowest common denominator dropping at an alarming rate has only gotten more true over time.
- 3y ago

> This project is making the commercial web more bearable, but I'd rather spend my energy on making the non-commercial web more attractive. Sounds like they got bored.

mock-possum 3y ago
‘Bored’ isn’t what I’d read into this - it sounds more like a shift in priorities to me.
ramon156 3y ago
Inatead of asking for a new maintainer they "shut it down", making it a more attractive project to pick up. Smart
boesboes 3y ago
More like 'Frustrated' if you ask me
63stack 3y ago
[flagged]
- davidmurdoch 3y ago
  Yeah? Well, you know, that's just like, uh, your opinion, man.
  - davidmurdoch 3y ago
    No Big Lebowski fans on HN? The commenter called me a liar, there's just no dialogue worth having with this person.
nalinidash 3y ago
> This project is making the commercial web more bearable, but I'd rather spend my energy on making the non-commercial web more attractive. I want to support communities and applications that respect their users and value what we have to say. These websites don't need letsblock.it rules, because they don't shove low-quality content and anti-features down our throats. Does this sound "bored"?
- davidmurdoch 3y ago
  Yeah, perfectly. That's why I suggested it. It sounds like he was super interested in one thing, 2 years passed, and now he isn't interested in that one thing and wants to do something else. Bored. There's nothing wrong with that. Being bored isn't a bad thing.
  - maxcoder4 3y ago
    I don't think I would call that bored. It's say this project let them grow enough that they realized that what they really want is something different than what they're working on. But to me "bored" sounds like a bad thing, so maybe I'm just arguing semantics.
    - davidmurdoch 3y ago
      Boredom isn't bad; its often how we become creative and create novel things. Not really the same quality of boredom as what I'm talking about, but this video from Veritasium is still relevant, I think: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LKPwKFigF8U https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LKPwKFigF8U

mtlynch 3y ago

>This project is making the commercial web more bearable, but I'd rather spend my energy on making the non-commercial web more attractive. They don't spell it out explicitly, but I think the author realized that they were effectively acting as an enabler. The letsblock.it tool encouraged customers to use workarounds so that they could still continue engaging with big tech companies that are so customer-hostile. Instead, the author is choosing to let big tech make their experience worse, and customers have more incentive to seek out non-commercial alternatives.

Handprint4469 3y ago
ding ding ding! Exactly. If the commercial enshittified web bothers you to the point of trying to fix it, at some point you'll realize that it's a quixotic crusade, and that you don't even want to engage with the content offered on these platforms anymore. Why would you? The shittier the platform, the shittier the content. The future of good online interactions is in small, closed, well-maintained and asynchronous communities.
- nonrandomstring 3y ago
  > Why would you? The shittier the platform, the shittier the content. Paradoxically that's the way some people find salvation. They have to hit the bottom. Instead of making their experience of digital abuse more palatable what they need is more YouTube, more Facebook, more Snapchat, TikTok and Instagram. Until something inside snaps and their soul pukes. I'd totally get it if the author realised they were just prolonging users' misery. As Nietzsche said; "What is shaky, push it!"
- blindstitch 3y ago
  The last line resonates with me as the discord I hang out in is my only source of good recommendations anymore. Almost all of the good stuff I've seen in the past years comes from there. My algorithmic feeds by comparison are all high-viewcount trash for idiots. That onion article from years ago about the lowest common denominator dropping at an alarming rate has only gotten more true over time.
3y ago