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Re: We need to rewild the internet

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Post by balder1991 » Mon, Apr 22, 2024, 1:08 AM UTC

sowbug wrote: post #255

account42 wrote: post #243

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But why care about whether your daughter's site is indexed. Share it with friends and if there is actually interesting content on there they will share it further. This whole idea that search engines are the be all and end all of being on the web and once you have visitors you need to somehow capture them is a big part of what is wrong with the web IMO. I much prefer a more organic web where people put themselves out…

Part of the fun of publishing is having readers. But even if you're OK nominating specific readers rather than letting anonymous ones find you, you wouldn't believe how skills like clicking a link have atrophied. You can send someone a URL, and they won't actually click on it because it arrived on their phone, they wanted to look at it on a laptop (because it's your kid's grandma who can't see well anymore), and they…

Well, anything in current social networks is also impossible to find. It is made for ephemeral content, if it goes viral, you get tons of likes. If not, it might as well never have existed.

Re: We need to rewild the internet

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Post by balder1991 » Mon, Apr 22, 2024, 5:35 AM UTC

arromatic wrote: post #260

xnx wrote: post #225

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TikTok is probably the easiest way for any average person to put content on the internet. Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter are still more intimidating than "point phone and hit record". Because it is so easy to put something on TikTok more people than every are posting things to the world (not just to friend/family groups) than ever. The content I comes from people who range in age from teenage to retiree, from every…

Seems interesting but seems like tiktok dosen't like me. I clicked the link and all i got was some terrible hyper localized content youtube won't even recommend . But it's good to see newcomers to get chance . The search seems awful i search some stuff in english and it showed me unrelated content. How is it dethroning youtube ?

Search on TikTok is really not good. The only way is letting the algorithm do its thing and soon it’ll show you content that interests you (which is content you liked or spent more time watching etc.).

It has no interest in offering you exactly what you want, it wants to maximize your time “hoping” the next video will be very good, which eventually happens (if you sunk enough time).

Re: We need to rewild the internet

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Post by fennecbutt » Mon, Apr 22, 2024, 11:26 AM UTC

verzali wrote: post #221

ozim wrote: post #133

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I think everyone is done with influencers. People would like to find genuine ones instead of just cash grabs.

People, especially the younger generations, are already too cynical. A lot of them don't seem to believe anyone does anything on the Internet except to make money. I find that profundly depressing.

I think that's wrong. Loads of my mates are 18-24 and many don't realise how basically all the "Hey look at this cool useless cheap crap" vids are all just ads. They even buy that crap, was no signal to think about it without being reminded to think about it.