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Sometimes I wonder - maybe websites were enough? Most people on most platforms are readers/consumers, not producers anyways. Maybe having a personal website was
by BinaryIgor 1y ago
Sometimes I wonder - maybe websites were enough? Most people on most platforms are readers/consumers, not producers anyways. Maybe having a personal website was a good filter for publishing after all? Maybe personal websites + sites like hackernews that allows us to discuss our and other people's work is the best the Internet could be.
- woah 1y agoMaybe pianos were enough. Radio has made it so families no longer gather round and sing in the evenings and TikTok is even worse than radio
- BinaryIgor 1y agoIt depends; not everything that's newer is automatically better. Web and websites did the heavy lifting of instant and world-wide information sharing. With social media, open or closed, there are many non-obvious tradeoffs; I am not sure whether on the whole, we are better off with or without them - time will tell
- Eisenstein 1y agoEven if the information consumers are 99% of the users, making the features available for the content creators leads to much better content. Plus people want the ability to be able to post content if they need to. I shall point to the /r/ask* subreddits as an example.
- amadeuspagel 1y agoHacker News doesn't allow you to build an audience, so every post has to appeal to the average HN reader to get attention.