Okay, I pay almost nothing for my domain. Provide me with the tools to create a cheap, mobile friendly, HTTPS website and I'm in.
type "website.new" in google chrome
We should replace Facebook with personal websites
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Re: We should replace Facebook with personal websites
#42Okay, I pay almost nothing for my domain. Provide me with the tools to create a cheap, mobile friendly, HTTPS website and I'm in.
Wordpress on a cheap VPS? TLS certs are free if you use Let’s Encrypt.
Re: We should replace Facebook with personal websites
#43>most of what people like about Facebook—namely the urge to post about their lives online. Where does the author get that idea? The majority of Facebook's 2 billion users do not post to their profile feed. Instead, the FB account is mostly used as a way to passively receive content. Some of the content is from family and friends, and some is from media outlets (NYTimes, etc). Recommending "personal websites" is talki…
When i try to think of what my ideal social media would look like, it always ends up sounding similar to an RSS feed, with the ability to lookup and requiring the other user's approval to get the actual content, you could use different clients, some could give you recommendations for events,etc based on your subscriptions if you so choose, or just run your own locally. life would be so simple
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#44>most of what people like about Facebook—namely the urge to post about their lives online. Where does the author get that idea? The majority of Facebook's 2 billion users do not post to their profile feed. Instead, the FB account is mostly used as a way to passively receive content. Some of the content is from family and friends, and some is from media outlets (NYTimes, etc). Recommending "personal websites" is talki…
Can you back that claim about the majority of Facebook users not producing content with data please
EDIT: Specifing the claim
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#45This is so crazy, I love the idea but the world isn't going back to how it was in the late 1990s / early 2000s. I've been in web hosting for a long time and I love the idea of everyone creating their own little website. The truth is people don't have the skills or care enough to do something like that, FB, Quora, Twitter, all these services that are walled gardens work because they make it EASY to share/create and CO…
I agree with your comments except for (respectfully) the part about: "We need to just accept the new world..." I firmly think this all represents opportunity. Opportunity for technologists to develop open platforms that are NOT cumbersome to setup nor to host by the layperson, and that - at least over some time - are extremely inexpensive. Maybe i'm an optimist, but i firmly believe there will be an open platform - or multiple complimentary open platforms working in concert - which will fill all of these needs (independence of/control of online presence, privacy, networking opportunities, etc.). I don't think we should merely accept this fate. For the technologists who read hacker news, I think all of this should be a call to arms - or better said a call to service. What is that phrase I've heard, something about being the change you want to see in the world?
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#46Alright folks, it's time to bring back Geocities and Angelfire. Pull out your antique rotating skull and "under construction" gifs.
http://textfiles.com/underconstruction/
For all your gif needs.
Re: We should replace Facebook with personal websites
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#48>most of what people like about Facebook—namely the urge to post about their lives online. Where does the author get that idea? The majority of Facebook's 2 billion users do not post to their profile feed. Instead, the FB account is mostly used as a way to passively receive content. Some of the content is from family and friends, and some is from media outlets (NYTimes, etc). Recommending "personal websites" is talki…
Can you back that claim about the majority of Facebook users not producing content with data please EDIT: Specifing the claim
The author of the article did not, so why should a comment saying differently be held to a higher standard?
Plus asking for data about a long post without referencing which part you even want data on is unconstructive.
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#49So, the driving force behind facebook is the newsfeed, which enables people to see everyone's updates without going one by one to each page. It's going to be hard to replicate this with personal sites, but maybe we don't want to anymore, now that we see the downsides of the addictive feed. Perhaps a person whose page you would not specifically visit once in a while, is a person who you aren't really friends with. But I'm not sure, because the feed really is fun at times. Politics degrades it as much as anything.
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#50Earlier quoted context omitted.
Can you back that claim about the majority of Facebook users not producing content with data please EDIT: Specifing the claim
The author of the article did not, so why should a comment saying differently be held to a higher standard? Plus asking for data about a long post without referencing which part you even want data on is unconstructive.
Two wrongs make the latter right.