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Signs You Are Living in an Information Crap-Pocalypse

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Re: Signs You Are Living in an Information Crap-Pocalypse

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Post by smugglerFlynn »

WWLink wrote: post #2

I started to read, then I scrolled down and it got dark and insisted I must create an account to read more. The irony of this headline is not lost on me hahaha.

To be fair, you can just click “continue reading” which will close the popup, but Substack does a pretty well job applying UX anti patters that some readers don’t notice tiny greyed-out link and just walk away.

I think the fact that Substack is both widely popular with authors and provides one of the few modern viable platforms for these authors to get paid, just further proves the point of the article.

Re: Signs You Are Living in an Information Crap-Pocalypse

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Post by nottorp »

croes wrote: post #5
WWLink wrote: post #2

I started to read, then I scrolled down and it got dark and insisted I must create an account to read more. The irony of this headline is not lost on me hahaha.

Strange, I got a "Continue reading" option under the Subscribe button.

Yeah but they're trying hard to make it invisible.

Plus you have trained yourself to know 'continue reading' means 'close this damn popup'. So have I, but there was a time I was closing such sites with the article unread.

Re: Signs You Are Living in an Information Crap-Pocalypse

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Post by tommek4077 »

smugglerFlynn wrote: post #4
WWLink wrote: post #2

I started to read, then I scrolled down and it got dark and insisted I must create an account to read more. The irony of this headline is not lost on me hahaha.

To be fair, you can just click “continue reading” which will close the popup, but Substack does a pretty well job applying UX anti patters that some readers don’t notice tiny greyed-out link and just walk away. I think the fact that Substack is both widely popular with authors and provides one of the few modern viable platforms for these authors to get paid, just further proves the point of the article.

Coming from the early web days it still is somehow weird for me to believe in getting paid for such a blog post.

Re: Signs You Are Living in an Information Crap-Pocalypse

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Post by throwawayqqq11 »

> Of course, this can’t go on forever. Eventually people abandon those polluted streams. That’s what will happen after the Age of Information crashes.

Strong claim with a stain of nuisance.

I would love to call it bs, because the mass internet is still relatively young and our society still has momentum in taming this medium.

On the other hand though, religion is much older than any medium and still alive and kicking and the enormous amplification by the internet to manipulate useful idiots to keep the status quo for our grande profiteurs is out of question.

The internet is usefull, not just for our information/nonsense/tribal addicted brains, i think, we won't overcome it either way.

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