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If I could bring one thing back to the internet it would be blogs

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Re: If I could bring one thing back to the internet it would be blogs

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Post by ALittleLight »

sturza wrote: post #495
ALittleLight wrote: post #277

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I was thinking about this the other day - trying to come up with an idea for a way to aggregate or recommend blogs to people based on what they'd previously enjoyed or the topics they were interested in. It took me several minutes to realize I was mentally describing Medium to myself. Still, something doesn't feel quite right about Medium to me.

Can we talk privately about this?

Talk privately about my thoughts on blog sharing and medium? Sure - provide an email address and I'll send you a "Hello".

Re: If I could bring one thing back to the internet it would be blogs

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Post by Shared404 »

cameronbrown wrote: post #590
Shared404 wrote: post #581

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Not gatekeeping, I phrased my idea badly before, and I'm sorry about that. I would like to make it clear that I feel very strongly against gatekeeping, and against censorship. More like not pushing for more acceptance. Allow a community to form, but do not try to market your way into a larger community. Obviously this approach is not sustainable, at least on the first try, as the Internet itself shows. However, now t…

How is that different from subreddits - Or communities like HN? Those aren't technical decisions, but social ones, so why do we need a new internet to implement them?

We don't necessarily need a new internet. However, it could provide another line of "defense" against corporate interests.

If the only barrier to joining is a technical one, than anyone who wanted to could join, but the majority of people would not have interest in joining. Ideally, this would prevent AdTech from taking an interest.

As for the fact that these are primarily social issues, I agree. A social solution is going to be much longer lasting and effective then any technical solution. However, it is also much more difficult to implement.

Re: If I could bring one thing back to the internet it would be blogs

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Post by jqgatsby »

pkamb wrote: post #192
alexchantavy wrote: post #159

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> Reddit doesn’t display those qualities because of the tragedy of the commons phenomenon. I find Reddit is still one of my favorite resources to search for help. If I need help on how to do some home DIY thing or help on making a particular decision, I'll Google for "how to decide blah Reddit" and I'll get much, much better signal than just Googling for "how to decide blah". In the latter case I'll get a bunch of ad…

Stack Exchange is even better, for sites with sufficiently large communities. Stack Overflow and Ask Different are amazing. But low-traffic SE sites just don't compete. I wish SE would change their account system and/or design so that their smaller sites became a better resource.

How would you recommend they change it to help low-traffic stack exchanges?

Re: If I could bring one thing back to the internet it would be blogs

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Post by Reelin »

abanayev wrote: post #625
Reelin wrote: post #485

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That's definitely true, but depending on the usecase it might not matter all that much. Also, that problem already applies to an anonymous blog anyway! Consider the usage of semi-anonymous accounts on HN or Reddit or wherever. There's some risk of deanonymization depending on usage style and how determined the attacker is, but it's still quite different from openly publishing things in a manner that links back to you…

An anonymous blog platform that offers a permanent and trusted Delete button could both let you change your mind about a former opinion and offer a fix in case of accidental slip-up

> a permanent and trusted Delete button

Any time bits leave your computer it would be wise to assume that they're out in the world for good. Especially for anything with a distributed architecture, presumably all you have control over is whether your personal box continues distributing it. I suppose you could set a "don't distribute" flag and hope that other hosts choose to honor it ...

Re: If I could bring one thing back to the internet it would be blogs

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Post by Rerarom »

Reelin wrote: post #379
throwaway1777 wrote: post #372

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Start an anonymous blog. I have one. Also an anonymous hacker news account. :)

The trouble with that is that once you post something to it you can never associate it with yourself (even accidentally!) or deanonymization of everything else posted by that identity will also occur. Half baked idea: A decentralized and properly anonymized (at the protocol level) service intended for long-form articles. Employ cryptographic primitives to allow association of a single article with one or more identit…

You can invent a separate identity with the goal of being deanonymized one day. And post what you want to keep anonymous using other identities.

Re: If I could bring one thing back to the internet it would be blogs

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Post by pkamb »

jqgatsby wrote: post #633
pkamb wrote: post #192

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Stack Exchange is even better, for sites with sufficiently large communities. Stack Overflow and Ask Different are amazing. But low-traffic SE sites just don't compete. I wish SE would change their account system and/or design so that their smaller sites became a better resource.

How would you recommend they change it to help low-traffic stack exchanges?

I edit and improve hundreds of posts on Stack Overflow.

I want to edit posts on SuperUser too... but SE won't let me. Despite having enough rep for complete trust on SO, I'm a bit short of 2000 on Super User.

If I try to edit a post, it goes into a queue for review by high-rep SU users. But there aren't enough of those, because the site is lower-traffic. So it takes hours to review. High-rep SO users, of which there are MANY, cannot contribute to this queue.

The questions and answers and culture between Stack Overflow, Super User, Ask Different, and their other "tech" sites are essentially exactly the same. There's no reason I couldn't contribute to any of those sites. But their multiple account system makes it impossible.

Re: If I could bring one thing back to the internet it would be blogs

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Post by Gary_W_Longsine »

Bloggers might be interested in knowing… we're bringing back iBlogger for iPhone (and now, iPad) this week, an all-new product built in Swift for iOS 13. The core text posting features will be free for all blog types (WordPress compatibility in this new release), with a subscriber In-App Purchase option to keep the product in active development.

If you want to join the TestFlight which will start within the next few days, find @illumineX on Twitter.

(I founded illumineX in 1998, and iBlogger was one of the first apps on the iPhone App Store in 2008.)

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