The demo scene is dying, but that's alright
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The demo scene is dying, but that's alright
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#2The EFF types and HN reader types are also dying subcultures.
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#3The EFF types and HN reader types are also dying subcultures.
What's EFF?
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#5The EFF types and HN reader types are also dying subcultures.
I was just thinking the other day, I haven't read a vim vs emacs flame-war in years.
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#8The EFF types and HN reader types are also dying subcultures.
What's EFF?
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#9Earlier quoted context omitted.
I was just thinking the other day, I haven't read a vim vs emacs flame-war in years .
The vim and emacs guys had to join forces to flame the greater evil - Electron-based editors.
And they’ve lost. Everyone and their cousin uses Electron editors while showing up to FOSDEM on their MacBooks to discuss kernel development.
It’s already long over. We’re just starting to notice. The EFF is baffled - why do they yell in a void now, when just a decade ago they stopped SOPA/PIPA with dramatic effect?
The free internet and the communities that support it have lost their voice and their cultural support. Interesting. It couldn’t possibly be because they stepped beyond common sense and became an echo chamber amongst themselves… right?
(There are many things popular on HN, heresy to question, that even I as a participant emphatically do not support, and I’m sure I’m not alone. I’ve learned hinting at these views gets downvotes and bad faith feedback… so it’s hard to cry at the growing irrelevance. It’s deserved.)
Re: The demo scene is dying, but that's alright
#10I would love more outlets for creative coding, I feel like neocities is a bit like that. That said there isn't really a scene or real sense of community (AFAIK). I mean someone liked something I uploaded once, but I never interacted with them again.
Cohost had fun vibes like that as well, but I guess it's no longer with us. Same with Glitch, but admittedly I didn't use it in the last few years, but it was my go to option for hosting a snippet of unserious HTML. "HTML in the park" does seem like one fun IRL outlet for this kind of thing, I found out my city has one and I want to go to it.
Admittedly none of these were really demo scenes or places where creative coding was exclusively fostered, but creative coding and demo-like-scenes communities probably exist but are more likely some obscure discord server.