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Re: Del.icio.us

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Post by Scarblac »

millstone wrote: post #26

This is old school weird web! For those who did not experience it, del.icio.us was a bookmarking service, and one of the first to have "tags", but also had a sense of fresh discovery. You can bookmark and tag your sites. But you can also browse the bookmarks and tags of people you know, and people they know, getting deeper, freed from algorithmic manipulation. Like Wikipedia, but you start at you.

Was there a way to find people with the same link(s)? I don't think I'm going to get anybody I know starting to use this again, but I'm going to try it out.

No algorithms. What a refreshing idea!

Re: Del.icio.us

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Post by Scarblac »

conjectures wrote: post #65
sn41 wrote: post #49

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Honestly, I would definitely enjoy that. Somehow the discussion on such boards was much more engaging.

It feels to me like some of that was having the same group of random strangers interacting. Rather than a constant flux of single comments.

And threads stick around, rather than disappear after a few days.

Re: Del.icio.us

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Post by Scarblac »

egorfine wrote: post #12

How relevant would be del.icio.us these days? (edit: typo)

It's content discovery without any algorithms involved, and only works well on things that have actual URLs (so no dynamically generated "feeds" and so on).

Who knows, maybe the world is thirsty for that.

Re: Del.icio.us

#74

Post by Andrew_nenakhov »

viraptor wrote: post #63
Andrew_nenakhov wrote: post #44

Hmm next what, people will abandon Facebook and flock back to thematic PHPBB forums? (I honestly can't wait!)

Isn't that what Matrix and Mastodon do? (It is for me) And to some extent Slack/Discord I guess...

the chat thing is better done by XMPP, and mastodon... well.. if it ever gains real traction, it'll get swarmed by mob behavior just like Twitter is now.

Re: Del.icio.us

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Post by oblio »

zozbot234 wrote: post #70
oblio wrote: post #58

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The all-mighty account creation hurdle will kill all such initiatives. And to fix this, you'd need buy-in from major tech companies. All of which don't want to solve this problem.

> The all-might account creation hurdle will kill all such initiative. Doesn't federation solve this? You're identified by the server you signed up on.

Federation of what? Which protocol?

Re: Del.icio.us

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Post by wombatmobile »

glenstein wrote: post #54

Delicious was for a time at the cultural nerve center of the web, and I think had the potential to be something like a twitter or a reddit if stewarded correctly. I like to think there was an alternate reality where Yahoo didn't run itself into the ground, and took its properties: delicious, flickr, tumblr, its massive userbase across fantasy sports, groups, news, messenger, geocities and answers, its email service,…

One difference in the fate of Yahoo vis a vis Google, is that Yahoo didn't spy on its users and exploit the knowledge gained from spying to make gazillions from advertising.

Take from that what you will. Google made money, and then Facebook learned how to make money by trumping Google - by harvesting the "digital surplus" of its users to power an advertising juggernaut.

The rise of advertising everywhere, and the loss of privacy, and the glut of trivia, hatred, and anti-science in the form of Facebook content, have resulted in a world that employs less than half the number of journalists than 20 years ago, and is governed by incompetent personalities.

The return of del.icio.us might just be one small step back in the right direction.

Re: Del.icio.us

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Post by rawfan »

fab1an wrote: post #64

Hell yes. A few days ago I word by word googled "Delicious bookmarking alternative 2020" and was dismayed to find that there does not seem to exist anything as lightweight today. Can't wait to use delicious again.

100% use pinboard.in. Moved there when all the shenenigans with delicious started and never looked back. For a couple of bucks extra, I even have an archive of the websites I bookmarked so that I can still access them when they go down eventually.

Re: Del.icio.us

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Post by viraptor »

Andrew_nenakhov wrote: post #74
viraptor wrote: post #63

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Isn't that what Matrix and Mastodon do? (It is for me) And to some extent Slack/Discord I guess...

the chat thing is better done by XMPP, and mastodon... well.. if it ever gains real traction, it'll get swarmed by mob behavior just like Twitter is now.

I guess we're just doomed to that cycle until some breakthrough. It's like an eternal eternal september, we're going to jump to new services which are temporarily better before everyone uses them.
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