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Everything is fun in the beginning. Then it gets commercialized and regulated and it's no longer fun.
Everything is fun in the beginning. Then it gets commercialized and regulated and it's no longer fun.
A while back I heard an interesting observation: coffee shop conversations in the Bay Area went from being about cool tech to being about money. I can't help but feel that this is a deeper change beyond just me facing the usual disillusionment of growing up.
TikTok is where I find fun on the current internet. It's hilarious (Taylor Swift private jet memes), weird (grimace shake), surprising, emotionally moving (hopecore), educational (how to adjust a door closer), and always exposing me to things I've never seen (starting process for a diesel locomotive). It contains ads, but they're pretty easy to identify and very easy to skip.
I never liked how addictive short form content like TikTok/Shorts/Reels are, the way they hijack your attention into an endless stream of information (a lot of time useless, but of course you can cater to your tastes) that you just stare at and swipe-swipe-swipe feels dystopian to say the least. I personally did an experiment on myself after I had issues watching long lectures being addicted to Youtube shorts, went o…
Everything is fun in the beginning. Then it gets commercialized and regulated and it's no longer fun.
Not trying to detract from your point, but the internet is still surprisingly unregulated, although I think we're at the early stages of seeing that change.
TikTok is where I find fun on the current internet. It's hilarious (Taylor Swift private jet memes), weird (grimace shake), surprising, emotionally moving (hopecore), educational (how to adjust a door closer), and always exposing me to things I've never seen (starting process for a diesel locomotive). It contains ads, but they're pretty easy to identify and very easy to skip.
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Internet fun is proportional to the degree of its decentralisation.
TikTok is where I find fun on the current internet. It's hilarious (Taylor Swift private jet memes), weird (grimace shake), surprising, emotionally moving (hopecore), educational (how to adjust a door closer), and always exposing me to things I've never seen (starting process for a diesel locomotive). It contains ads, but they're pretty easy to identify and very easy to skip.
I am allergic to video content. I don't use the tiktok app or website, and I only ever watch a facebook or instagram reel if someone sends it to me, I never click through the UI to get to them. There's something so infuriating about not knowing how long you're going to be held hostage for, whether it will be worth it, whether the volume will be on or off... I just hate it.
I miss when my bookmarks folder had a hundred entries in it instead of not needing bookmarks because there are only five websites. One out of a dozen people is capable of producing something interesting on a consistent basis, yet we've become convinced that each of us is somehow deficient if we aren't capable of convincing a mass of strangers to engage with our thoughts and opinions. The dung beetle internet is just…
They're actually better than bookmarks IMO because they save a snapshot of the page, which helps jog the memory better than the Favicon that browser bookmarks usually save.