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i recently created a website: 13channel.crabdance.com we only have a handful of users, feel free to join us. I think it's hard for people to stick around since there are no alerts, subscriptions, notifications, etc. You have to come back to the website and check.
The causes seem two-fold. One is that most people consume content in apps, so most creators create contents for that audience. TikTok, Twitter, Reddit, Facebook, YouTube, etc are where users are, so it's where creators put their content for visibility. Related to this is, I feel, the switch to mobile, where the more limited UX of the device makes it a LOT easier to just stay in the same app rather than type URLs or m…
Stumbleupon! What a gleaming ray of sunshine in the vast landscape of the web! I agree with you that it couldn't survive today, but I often wonder why . If I had access to stumbleupon as it was, I would absolutely be using it - but when I try to think about how to reimplement it there are a couple sticking points that I don't have any solutions to: - Engagement: SU lived and died on it's users, a paragon of the crowd…
Here is one I found with a 5 second search: https://cloudhiker.net/
It works great. It's fun. Hopefully people will enjoy it. But I dont think we need to make excuses for why its not more popular.
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> it's hard to keep up with blogs and niche interests. More difficult than it used to be, at least It is hard to keep up with niche interests! I blame it on being 36 with real responsibilities instead of 22 and in college. I suspect that has a much bigger impact than the state of the web/internet today. My younger more energetic coworkers tell me about all sorts of fun and wonderful things they discover and deep-dive…
Way more content, maybe, but on platforms that are not made for long term retention and curation, but for attention span of a fruit fly and optimized for engagement. The content might get the quick giggle or wow, but then it has passed. TikTok and similar are not the kind of platform that I would search answers to questions on or that I would use to follow a hobby in depth. Perhaps my hobbies don't lend themselves to…
At my dayjob we do women’s health, actual clinics with real doctors. Many of our users come from Instagram and TikTok ads. Because yes people will in fact choose their doctor based on a good Instagram/TikTok presence. In fact any time I mention the brand to female friends who live in our target markets they go ”Oh yeah! I’ve seen your ads on Instagram”. It’s never search, or a billboard, or a blog, or youtube, or even me telling them about it. They recognize us from Instagram and Tok.
It’s a wild world out there my friend. Makes me wanna yell at clouds every day.
It feels like the web grew up into an bitter old fart who takes everything way to seriously. What's missing is the culture of "anonymity" where everyone was pretty much just a screen name and people did not give that much care to their long term reputations and the fall from that more or less started with facebooks real name policy, or rather when facebook stopped being an glorified phonebook and started being an con…
One of the magic bits of the earlier web(s) is that it was all new, participation involved an element of non-replicable self-selection, and the parasites hadn't had enough time to adapt and colonize it.
I'm not even sure if it's will be possible to have a community of "pseudoanonymous amateurs" in the future. It'll probably get swamped with AI generated garbage, like the crochet groups posted about a week or so ago. The human participants will get overwhelmed trying to figure out what's fake.
Honestly, like many kinds of forest, what the Web probably needs is a good burning, controlled or otherwise.
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> Nobody takes any content from /b/ seriously. That's a bold claim. It requires a single counter-example to disprove. I take it seriously, so your statement is empirically wrong. Please retract it.
You are technically correct if we take the literal interpretation of my words, however, the literal interpretation is not the intended one. The intended interpretation is that no reasonable person takes /b/ seriously . Perhaps you have some kind of impairment that prevents you from understanding subtleties of informal speech, but I think it's more likely you're just taking a piss. > I take it seriously Then you shoul…
What evidence would it take to change your mind?
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You are technically correct if we take the literal interpretation of my words, however, the literal interpretation is not the intended one. The intended interpretation is that no reasonable person takes /b/ seriously . Perhaps you have some kind of impairment that prevents you from understanding subtleties of informal speech, but I think it's more likely you're just taking a piss. > I take it seriously Then you shoul…
Oh, you took me literally too! So weird! What evidence would it take to change your mind?
EDIT: you changed your reply to make it less obnoxious, but I won't come back to this discussion regardless.
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Oh, you took me literally too! So weird! What evidence would it take to change your mind?
I find your manner of discussion obnoxious, so I will refrain from replying to you anymore. EDIT: you changed your reply to make it less obnoxious, but I won't come back to this discussion regardless.
Same goes with old phpbb forums - everyone sits on various discords, and places-pockets of knowledge dies one by one, recently lot of 3d-design related people mourned closure of cgsociety forum.
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Nah. 4chan's reputation is entirely undeserved. See? I can also make claims without any arguments whatsoever.
Yes, that's all you've been doing. But 4chan wears its infamy on its sleeve with pride (usually white pride.) The Alfred E. Neuman shtick of disaffected bemusement was stale even when Mad was published on dead trees. But go ahead and take the last laugh. You're being neither clever nor insightful here.
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Way more content, maybe, but on platforms that are not made for long term retention and curation, but for attention span of a fruit fly and optimized for engagement. The content might get the quick giggle or wow, but then it has passed. TikTok and similar are not the kind of platform that I would search answers to questions on or that I would use to follow a hobby in depth. Perhaps my hobbies don't lend themselves to…
And yet I listened to a podcast once where a tax accountant explained that Instagram Search is her strongest lead pipeline. At my dayjob we do women’s health, actual clinics with real doctors. Many of our users come from Instagram and TikTok ads. Because yes people will in fact choose their doctor based on a good Instagram/TikTok presence. In fact any time I mention the brand to female friends who live in our target…
Because an entire generation of new American adults does not use web browsers, like much at all.
Want a burger? You probably open Chrome, go to Google or Kagi and type “Burger $myCity”
People under 25 use TikTok and Instagram and just look for “burger” and are blasted by 300 10s videos of real people munching and smiling. Like a perfect commercial and entirely crowdsourced.
That’s the new internet. The kids only know ‘content’. They don’t know what the fuck an HTML file is.