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Post by susam »

abixb wrote: post #122
mprast wrote: post #112

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I was on tiktok in 2019/2020 and for a brief period it was just ordinary users messing around and posting whatever they felt like. No tiktok shop, very few ads or thinkpieces, nobody was trying to build an audience. A lot weirder and a lot more fun

Commercialization and infiltration of advertising-dollars-seeking "influencers" ruins social media sites. I miss the early days of the internet (and especially YouTube) so fucking much. I'm 28 now, and I've been online since 2009. I think 2009-2014 was the GOLDEN AGE of the internet for me, especially on YouTube.

I've been on the Internet since 1999, and I feel a strong sense of nostalgia for those early years. For me, the period from 1999 to 2010 was the "golden age" of the Internet. It was a time of exploration, creativity, and genuine connection. I imagine that people who joined even earlier might feel a similar nostalgia for their own era on the web.

I also wrote about my experiences and why I consider this time the golden age in a blog post here: https://susam.net/web-golden.html>.

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Post by anileated »

spuds wrote: post #70

I love the rawness of this. I've noticed I tend towards a feeling of everyone else in the world being so alien, living some totally different incomprehensible life from mine. (Or more than I'm the alien, and everyone else is living a normal, enviable life.) Seeing little snapshots like these, most of them seemingly just for memory's sake, makes me feel a little more human. Hard to get on any social media, where there…

> I've noticed I tend towards a feeling of everyone else in the world being so alien, living some totally different incomprehensible life from mine. (Or more than I'm the alien, and everyone else is living a normal, enviable life.)

Same.

> Seeing little snapshots like these, most of them seemingly just for memory's sake, makes me feel a little more human.

For me these videos only highlight the previously mentioned state of affairs.

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Post by epcoa »

durumu wrote: post #54
epcoa wrote: post #43

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> I'm definitely looking at it from rose colored glasses It's not rose tinted glasses, it's just a poor comparison. The absolute vast majority of these videos have double digit if not any views. You're seeking them out, using a little quirk of naming and the poster's DGAFism. There is no pretense of promotion to a large audience or virality. Anything spoonfed you on a Tiktok or Instagram feed could not be more differ…

I believe Reddit in particular actually has gotten much more optimized in the past 15 years. I don't think this is rose colored glasses, the content really is much more engaging and addictive, with more short form videos and content that can be understood immediately at a glance.

This may be so, but I don’t know how it counters the fact that there is more essentially unwatched and obscure content produced on these platforms than ever.

And it's not like this particular content was once popular in the "good old days", the view counts are literally 0 in some cases.

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Post by all2 »

wingworks wrote: post #109

omg, where is this from? (some kinda app that overlayed 3d animations?) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WOSWZduStYs

That looks like a 2D image with an alpha channel based on the background color of the image. Watch the shadow of the bot as it crosses the edge if the desk.

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Post by eCa »

abixb wrote: post #134
antod wrote: post #128

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm old enough to have seen multiple golden ages / phases of the internet and was thinking about pointing out every era has one based on your age. But then again, I kinda suspect there's some deeper truth going on where your mentioned golden age might be one of the last though?

Yeah, the ubiquity of smartphones and the rise of Facebook and Instagram (post-acquisition) as an open platform for advertisers versus mostly for early adopters/enthusiasts really killed the "fun" of the internet. Also, I remember how many different frameworks and "rich internet application" technologies existed back then (Adobe Flash, Microsoft Silverlight, Apple QuickTime, etc.). In many ways, the internet was a mu…

> really killed the "fun" of the internet.

The original eternal September[1] predates my entry to the internet by a couple of years, but the cycle repeats eternally.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eternal_September

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Post by cypherpunks01 »

albert_e wrote: post #133
mastazi wrote: post #11

The website http://astronaut.io/ does a similar thing but for recent videos, and not just from iPhones. From the home page: > These videos come from YouTube. They were uploaded in the last week and have titles like DSC 1234 and IMG 4321. They have almost zero previous views. They are unnamed, unedited, and unseen (by anyone but you). At one point you might be at a school recital in Malaysia, and the next minute you a…

It would be very interesting to get a view of the source code for such a site. There are other interesting ideas that could be done by mixing videos selected using other filters etc. By any chance is this or similar on github :)

https://github.com/wonga00/astronaut

I remember looking through the code awhile ago, it's nice and simple!

Uses socket.io w node.js + express, a crawler script searches YT periodically to keep the videos fresh. The server iterates randomly through the video list, telling all clients through socket.io which video is next, and when to switch.

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Post by doctorpangloss »

mprast wrote: post #112
tokioyoyo wrote: post #24

A little bit tangent, and I'm definitely looking at it from rose colored glasses... but been playing with it for the 30 minutes, and most of the videos look so real? Like when you go on TikTok / Instagram nowadays, there are obviously unlimited amount of content. But there's this sense of everything being edited multiple times, people trying to create their own "brand", nothing looking real. It's a shame how we over-…

I was on tiktok in 2019/2020 and for a brief period it was just ordinary users messing around and posting whatever they felt like. No tiktok shop, very few ads or thinkpieces, nobody was trying to build an audience. A lot weirder and a lot more fun

The absolute freak show that is the TikTok top daily videos isn’t weird enough for you?

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Post by eCa »

renewiltord wrote: post #108
brap wrote: post #50

I understand that these videos were made public, but still this kinda feels like violating people’s privacy. They most likely never intended for us all to watch their personal videos a decade later.

This is what I don't get about historians reading old people's letters to each other. Most of Alexander the Great's letters that are read are fake, but for the ones that are real, did anyone ask for his consent first? What makes anyone think that we should be privy to their inmost thoughts put to stone? Even if he did, is it informed consent if he did so not knowing that billions could one day consume this idly? Peop…

I think a case could be made that it’s fair that a person of his influence on the world loses a bit of his privacy a couple of thousand years after his death.

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Post by fortyseven »

rkagerer wrote: post #83
brap wrote: post #50

I understand that these videos were made public, but still this kinda feels like violating people’s privacy. They most likely never intended for us all to watch their personal videos a decade later.

I'm surprised yours is the only comment from this perspective. I get the draw and innocence of such videos, but I agree spreading them knowing they were most likely uploaded accidentally seems a violation of these people's privacy.

Why on earth would you assume that most of these are an accident?
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