Why isn't the internet more fun and weird? (2019) • Hacker News Board

Re: Why isn't the internet more fun and weird? (2019)

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Post by egypturnash » Fri, Jul 08, 2022, 9:45 PM UTC

Cr4shMyCar wrote: post #238

egypturnash wrote: post #38

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Hello fellow furry pornmonger :) It’s fucking GREAT really, furry is poison to megacorps and there’s a ton of room for individual creators to thrive without corporations relentlessly optimizing their cash extraction at huge scales.

The fandom creates such an incredible environment for creators to thrive in. I went to a con near me and a walk through the dealer's den showed the vast variety of creators. Of course, there were artists with prints and merch, but there were also furry musicians with CDs of albums and DJ sets, a woodworker with carvings and laser-cut journals where the pages were magnetic inserts, someone selling fursuit parts like e…

I have not been to a con since a few years before the pandemic, I really gotta figure out what’s around me now that I’ve moved.

Re: Why isn't the internet more fun and weird? (2019)

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Post by solarkraft » Sat, Jul 09, 2022, 12:19 PM UTC

Sir_Burpalot wrote: post #259

solarkraft wrote: post #103

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Awesome. I think there's a huge need for a search engine filtering out commercial content. It's basically just all spam. Recently I wanted to find information on hacking a device I had obtained - but of course any search query I could throw at search engines only yielded ways to buy it or low-effort reviews. I tried marginalia but it seems like the index wasn't quite large enough for my purpose yet.

Consider trying Kagi. (I first started using it while it was still in closed beta, but I am not otherwise affiliated with them. I am very satisfied with it so far.)

I also used it during its beta phase and found it rather unremarkable. What really kept me from seriously considering it is that the account requirements prevents using it anonymously.

Re: Why isn't the internet more fun and weird? (2019)

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Post by ayngg » Thu, Jul 14, 2022, 7:05 PM UTC

standardly wrote: post #278

ayngg wrote: post #177

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The internet has changed from communities of interest to communities of people who commoditize social interaction within those interests. On the surface they seem fairly close to actual communities but they incentivize different things which changes how the community operates and personally I think they don't provide many of the healthy benefits of communities while cultivating some pretty unhealthy behavior loops.

You just described Reddit, right?

Basically every "community" that has some emphasis on a voting/ like system. So yeah Reddit and most of the large social media communities like Tiktok, Twitter and so on. Even HN probably has similar effects although they aren't as pronounced.