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Omg.lol: An Oasis on the Internet

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Re: Omg.lol: An Oasis on the Internet

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Post by bee_rider »

porcoda wrote: post #90
contrarian1234 wrote: post #54

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think that's great.. archiving should be opt-in not opt-out You can read and access my work/words as I want. And once I don't or change my mind you can't. Once someone posts something, you don't have a right to it in perpetuity .. That's how things should work - but that's just my opinion

Totally agree. The tech community has a massive arrogance problem where we tend towards opt-out vs opt-in for everything. Just because us tech-savvy folks understand the consequences of, say, posting something online, doesn’t mean the bulk of humanity who isn’t tech savvy also understands that and agrees with us.

There isn’t any way we can make being copied opt-in, rather than opt-out. We can not copy things. But we can’t prevent other people from copying things. So, it is better to set the expectation that things will be copied, otherwise people will be mislead into thinking they can delete their content, and will post things they regret.

Plus, if everyone can delete their mistakes, we’ll live in a world where it looks like nobody makes mistakes, and so we’ll be less tolerant of mistakes.

Re: Omg.lol: An Oasis on the Internet

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Post by rglullis »

kibwen wrote: post #71
kvathupo wrote: post #66

I like this. That said, I doubt we'll ever escape towards subscription-based social media models due to the prohibitive costs of CDNs, bandwidth, and storage for video/images. But I suppose it's a question of ends: do we want everyone on social media?

If you can live without video and images, you could comfortably host even a very large forum (on the order of the top 10% of subreddits by volume) with only a $5/month VPS, as long as you made it serve static pages and were judicious with your tech stack. The cost of hosting text alone wasn't prohibitive 20 years ago, and it's even less so today.

Media is (ought) to be stored in a shared, content addressable storage system like torrent magnet links and IPFS. Backed by something like Tahoe-LAFS.

Re: Omg.lol: An Oasis on the Internet

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Post by monooso »

jongjong wrote: post #118

> In the fall of 2022, I started using Twitter more. I don’t know why; probably a curious desire to see how bad Elon Musk would screw it up. I stopped reading there. I'm not interested in using a product made by someone who regurgitates ESG nonsense without thinking. I want these people and these ideologies out of my life. They need to do some soul-searching. What is bad about Elon that you want him to fail? Anyone w…

> What is bad about Elon that you want him to fail?

Read the text you quoted again. The author doesn't say anything about wanting Musk to fail.

> I stopped reading there.

That's a shame. You missed out on a fun blog post.

Re: Omg.lol: An Oasis on the Internet

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Post by Always_Anon »

shusaku wrote: post #131

That’s a fun set of features, but I don’t see the connection with the community. You can browse their mastodon feed and it’s just a bunch of vaguely liberal vaguely tech posts? I’d like to see which accounts are using the services for a better community

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Re: Omg.lol: An Oasis on the Internet

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Post by acdha »

Always_Anon wrote: post #145
shusaku wrote: post #131

That’s a fun set of features, but I don’t see the connection with the community. You can browse their mastodon feed and it’s just a bunch of vaguely liberal vaguely tech posts? I’d like to see which accounts are using the services for a better community

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Where I grew up, that was called being polite and it didn’t automatically rule out anything other that liberalism. There’s a ton of room between disagreement and harassment.

Re: Omg.lol: An Oasis on the Internet

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Post by httpsterio »

I just joined after reading the post. This wasn't the first time I've heard of Omg.lol but I wasn't entirely convinced earlier.

For a long while, I've felt kinda lonely online as all of the communities and little corners online I've been part off have slowly died. I guess I've sort of been digitally homeless.

I really enjoy the latest trends when it comes to indieweb and digital gardens, people creating their own space instead of living on closed platforms, so this definitely hit all the marks for me. I don't think I've bought anything online faster than just now haha.

Blake just cost me twenty quid, but I'm happy to vote with my feet instead of selling my data and attention to big corporations.

Re: Omg.lol: An Oasis on the Internet

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Post by rchaud »

jay-barronville wrote: post #20
shermantanktop wrote: post #6

“omg.lol is unabashedly built with PHP” PHP is on my mental list of forever-security-challenged tech, but it got on that list a long time ago. It’s 2023, is that still a reasonable concern?

> It’s 2023, is that still a reasonable concern? No. A LOT has changed in the world of PHP over the years. And to be honest, I give credit to amazing frameworks like Laravel [0] for giving PHP a massive facelift (I consider Taylor Otwell one of my software heroes). Overall though, modern PHP software is much cleaner and more secure than whatever you knew from years ago. [0]: https://laravel.com

PHP, jQuery and W3Schools - HN's combined kryptonite

Re: Omg.lol: An Oasis on the Internet

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Post by rglullis »

jongjong wrote: post #118

> In the fall of 2022, I started using Twitter more. I don’t know why; probably a curious desire to see how bad Elon Musk would screw it up. I stopped reading there. I'm not interested in using a product made by someone who regurgitates ESG nonsense without thinking. I want these people and these ideologies out of my life. They need to do some soul-searching. What is bad about Elon that you want him to fail? Anyone w…

Put aside the personality of Musk:

- jacking up the price of the API

- Removing chronological timeline completely, to the point that one can not simply get a list of one's tweets by going to their profile

- his vision of the "everything app".

- the "pay to play" aspect of the blue check.

Are more than enough reason for me to want Twitter to fail.

I do not want a social media that favors those who are paying, and I do not want a company that started a simple communications platform to become even more of an ubiquitous device for Surveillance Capitalism.

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Post by RuleOfBirds »

Always_Anon wrote: post #145
shusaku wrote: post #131

That’s a fun set of features, but I don’t see the connection with the community. You can browse their mastodon feed and it’s just a bunch of vaguely liberal vaguely tech posts? I’d like to see which accounts are using the services for a better community

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God. "Freedom of speech" and "free of abuse?" Sounds like a nightmare! Liberals!!

Where are the spaces anymore to be outlandishly an asshole and shut other people down?! :-|

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