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I miss StumbleUpon
Wait, StumbleUpon shut down? I had no idea. That's sad, that site was great.
There’s this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42938061
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#112IDK why, but this reminds me of earlier days of internet, when it was full of random, non-usable but funny content like this. Best things often don't make that much sense.
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stumble was the algo sweet spot. an endless feed of things that are slightly better than being alone with my thoughts, but no parasocial "community" with concomitant toxicity.
Yeah I think what killed the web was Google and Facebook. The former brought massive amounts of spam and the latter brought real identies which broke the freedom of the internet. Or in other words, both brought the Internet and made it real and connected with the real world. And I think that's not a good thing. The Internet was supposed to be a virtual space for exploration, learning, fun, and it should have had no b…
I don't think real identities broke the internet... what really did it was the perfecting of the addiction formula, by multiple companies (from facebook to king). It turned it into an Opium den
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#114Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yeah I think what killed the web was Google and Facebook. The former brought massive amounts of spam and the latter brought real identies which broke the freedom of the internet. Or in other words, both brought the Internet and made it real and connected with the real world. And I think that's not a good thing. The Internet was supposed to be a virtual space for exploration, learning, fun, and it should have had no b…
I don't think real identities broke the internet... what really did it was the perfecting of the addiction formula, by multiple companies (from facebook to king). It turned it into an Opium den
I think companies would have had a much harder time in perfecting the addiction formula if things were anonymous.
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#115Earlier quoted context omitted.
I don't think real identities broke the internet... what really did it was the perfecting of the addiction formula, by multiple companies (from facebook to king). It turned it into an Opium den
I think companies would have had a much harder time in perfecting the addiction formula if things were anonymous.
We all still had defined identities back then, the nicks, even if we didn't use real names. And those are enough for targeting.
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Yes, but it seems > No JavaScript is sent to the browser. Is a design goal. I doubt it is possible without JS. Especially inside SVG.
(Thinking aloud) How I'd approach that: - you could render the page using puppeteer server-side, getClientRect/calc and apply the dimensions to the path, then spit back the markup, OR - you could use HTML + CSS to render the bubbles
"Tonight: Orange Reddit over-engineers a meme website that any normal person would just make with seven PNG files and getDay()."
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#117IDK why, but this reminds me of earlier days of internet, when it was full of random, non-usable but funny content like this. Best things often don't make that much sense.
I miss StumbleUpon
Kagi Small Web has been fun to explore and reminds me a bit of the StumbleUpon of yore: https://kagi.com/smallweb
If you'd like to read more: https://blog.kagi.com/small-web
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#118Earlier quoted context omitted.
stumble was the algo sweet spot. an endless feed of things that are slightly better than being alone with my thoughts, but no parasocial "community" with concomitant toxicity.
Yeah I think what killed the web was Google and Facebook. The former brought massive amounts of spam and the latter brought real identies which broke the freedom of the internet. Or in other words, both brought the Internet and made it real and connected with the real world. And I think that's not a good thing. The Internet was supposed to be a virtual space for exploration, learning, fun, and it should have had no b…
>The Internet ... should have had no bearing on our actual day-to-day living experience.
Replace "The Internet" with previous communications technology and maybe that will demonstrate how completely unrealistic that sounds. Television should have had no bearing on our day-to-day existence? Phones? Radio?
I guess you can arbitrarily draw the line at the Internet, sort of like the Amish did with electricity. But it seems arbitrary to me.
The moral of every sci-fi story is that technology is morally neutral and it's how you use it that matters. Why would The Internet be different?
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#119Earlier quoted context omitted.
I don't think real identities broke the internet... what really did it was the perfecting of the addiction formula, by multiple companies (from facebook to king). It turned it into an Opium den
I think companies would have had a much harder time in perfecting the addiction formula if things were anonymous.
Tiktok is entirely anonymous (well other than you showing your face if you post). So is Reddit. So is Candy Crush...
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#120> [1] https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/what-a-week-huh > "In the episode, the character Liz Lemon, portrayed by Tina Fey, complains to character Jack Donaghy, portrayed by Alec Baldwin, about having finished a hard week of work, with Donaghey reminding her that it is still Wednesday" I don't know any context beyond what's in this clip of Liz Lemon saying it to Jack https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1z3uGyBM_1c but "what…
The proper context, too, is that Liz Lemon is in charge of showrunning a Saturday Night skit show and is facing many challenges. "Lemon, it's Wednesday" implies that there are many things that can go wrong in between Wednesday and Saturday.