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by waif 3y ago
Could be. The baffling thing is there doesn't seem to be much consideration by those community leaders for how different these mediums are. It would be like if HN converted overnight into an IRC server or mailing list. Those formats ju
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by waif 3y ago
I think I broke YouTube? I signed up for the Premium trial. The day before the trial expired, I cancelled and deleted my card info. This was weeks ago, and I still haven't seen a single ad ever since. There are ads in the home feed, bu
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by waif 3y ago
I also suspect this. We'll find out decades from now. Like woops, we shouldn't have put lead in gasoline, even though we knew it was hazardous. Or sorry for putting flame retardant chemicals in all of your furniture and bedding, t
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by waif 3y ago
I dunno. I have a blog with niche info, but it doesn't even show up before page 10 or whatever. But technically, it's still indexed... Search engines lost. With ChatGPT it's about to get 10x worse. We could switch back to man
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by waif 3y ago
The latest crop of "metaverses" are almost all intertwined with blockchain. It's about buying into the metaverse, buy your plot of land, buy your sneakers, buy your new hairstyle, buy your emote laugh animation. Every possi
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by waif 3y ago
Agreed, we need to get back to independent forums. And there are better techniques to sustain them now, compared to back then. They don't need to be plastered with banner ads. - Annual donations with Stripe checkout, etc - Job boards -
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by waif 3y ago
Also, "microwave safe" does not mean it's safe for people... it only means the container won't melt in the microwave. If you're going to reheat leftovers, definitely don't keep it inside a plastic container. I
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by waif 3y ago
But that convenient place is a single point of failure :3
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by waif 3y ago
But should we have a replacement for reddit..? I think we had the model right before the concept of social media came along, which is many small independent communities.
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by waif 3y ago
Honestly it's probably better for the web if it reverts back to the model of smaller independent forums. HN is a good example of a healthy small/medium sized community. I would say the 'social media era' of the history o
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by waif 3y ago
And wasn't it the Twitterrific client that came up with the phrase "tweet", and they also introduced the blue bird icon. Then musk took over, and he banned them from using the API and forced them to close down. What a stand u
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by waif 3y ago
If the web collectively swings back in the other direction, to the fediverse or some other evolution, there will be a revival of small indie clients, and a revival of a better web in general. Twitter is in freefall and Reddit is on the verg