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Links are incredibly useful. Leaving aside the dubious benefit of the idea that we want everything to "be inside the same app" (an idea that is essentially 'pla
by matthewdgreen 2y ago
Links are incredibly useful. Leaving aside the dubious benefit of the idea that we want everything to "be inside the same app" (an idea that is essentially 'platform lock-in rephrased as a feature'), a huge amount of useful content is already on web pages with URLs. The ability to share those resources quickly is essential. There's zero benefit to forcing users into copying and pasting existing text into a medium with extreme formatting limitations and no ability to handle dynamic content or inline images. And there is negative benefit from moving content from the open web to a site that requires a login.
- MichaelZuo 2y agoThis doesn’t really make sense without a well reasoned out argument. How can your opinion outweigh that of the various decision makers who originally agreed to implement it…?
- judahmeek 2y ago> How can your opinion outweigh that of the various decision makers who originally agreed to implement it…? Through subjectivity, of course.
- schneems 2y ago> Berners-Lee, the creator of the Web, chose the name “World Wide Web” because he wanted to emphasize that, in this global hypertext system, anything could link to anything else https://www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/2011/01/why-the-web-is-called-the-world-wide-web/ https://www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/2011/01/why-the-web... The net is fundamentally about linking things together.
- MichaelZuo 2y ago[flagged]
- jazzyjackson 2y agoBerners-Lee was brought up as a rejoinder to various decision makers who originally agreed to implement it, being that the www is more original than twitter, and fwiw he's not an American. It's quite exasperating to find someone arguing that there is some benefit to regression towards applications which don't link into other applications. Why be on the web at all?
- MichaelZuo 2y agoYou haven’t addressed the question. Why does it matter what he thinks or thought about this or that topic? Opinions can’t suddenly transmute into facts, regardless of anyone that has ever existed in human history.
- error_logic 2y agoIf someone limits your options to only two, or even one source of resources, are you better off? This discussion thread emerged from the suggestion of "maybe that's a good thing." Is it? It's a question of trust, competition, and whether there's so much destruction of honest competition that only the destructive and twisted competition remains, keeping people afraid to venture into the unknown, willing to perpetuate the cycle of destroying competitors and endangering civilization itself.
- MichaelZuo 2y agoHow does this relate to the prior comment?
- error_logic 2y agoA walled garden can protect, or it can enslave. Eye of the beholder. This thread was about creating a walled garden by downranking external links.
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- meiraleal 2y agothere’s just one decision maker in Twitter
- Applejinx 2y agoNow there is. Didn't used to be, and it cost a startling amount of money for that to be the case, and it was done to achieve a purpose rather than to make Twitter better at being Twitter. Something of a pyrrhic victory, that.
- skyyler 2y ago>This doesn’t really make sense without a well reasoned out argument. It seemed well reasoned to me... ?