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A website to destroy all websites
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Re: A website to destroy all websites
#382Earlier quoted context omitted.
I once spend half a day or so gathering RSS feeds from fortune 500 companies press releases. I expected it to be mostly bullshit but was pleasantly surprised. Apparently if one spends enough millions on doing something there is no room for bullshit in the publication.
Pleasantly surprised? I would think that these feeds would consist of product and company announcements and this would be the expected/appropriate content. Did you find something less sterile?
To convince you I would really need to rebuild this thing and show it side by side with blogs and news outlets.
To give one example, at the time I gathered f500 feeds my other feed sets (tens of thousands) suffered horribly from echo chamber effect. I had endless headlines announcing that David Bowie died. Something like half of it. I don't find that a particularly interesting topic. I have my own memories of his work and have little need for more. Perhaps you would like to read 20 of those? Surely not thousands? It isn't that it isn't a noteworthy event but it drowns out everything else.
Meanwhile Walmart is talking about donating returned Lego to charities.
Exon is talking about a giant ammonia deal to make carbon neutral hydrogen
and GM talks about their next generation software platform to help bring long term continuous innovation to customers through over-the-air updates.
They apparently have tons of diagnostic data and are looking to make it more practical complete with remote tuning for old clunkers.
This to me is quite a lot more interesting than say cbnc talking about war with iran, if bitcoin will survive and that Tesla stock is down???? I really needed more articles about those topics? I thought I already got a million of those. No way in hell I will open those links.
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#383The website to destroy all websites is https://gwern.net For however much I can respect individuals for showing their creativity, the novelty of it wears off. The majority of people in the Indie Web scene all blend together. The presentation might be different, but the essence is mostly the same. Not everyone needs to express themselves and voice their opinions. "Lurk five more years before posting" as people used to…
I thought it was https://wwwwwwwww.jodi.org/
No, it was https://zombo.com/. You can do anything there.
Re: A website to destroy all websites
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#385Earlier quoted context omitted.
https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html > Please don't post comments saying that HN is turning into Reddit. It's a semi-noob illusion, as old as the hills. The actual quote has links, the first of which is to a comment from 2009.
particularly ironic comment from an HN/lobsters celebrity account lol this website isn't turning into Reddit, this website has been a pretentious orange subreddit for well over a decade if not right from the get go and a link to this site's Reddiquette page (just as ignored as on any subreddit!) is evidence TO that effect, and not against it! the fact that the link petuously denies reality notwithstanding!
I mean, I'm not saying I think it's some sort of bastion of intellectual superiority, just that "have people been saying this place has been going downhill for a long time" is true.
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To some it felt like nothing as they couldn't render the content. The challenge when tackling difficult problems is to bring in solutions to those problems. Subway offered an alternative to junk food. By offering custom flavors of choice, giving consumers more control over what they eat. I don't see any fresh food at subway. Does it mean what they did is futile? No. Can't we point out this is another type of junk ? W…
One of the most frustrating and perhaps thought-terminating clichés on the internet and social media at large is alluded to in this reply: “I personally could not view this page [because I turned off JS], therefore I will dismiss it out of hand as it didn’t cater to my needs.” A choice made by the consumer somehow makes the author accountable for it. Or more succinctly, “but what about me [or people I’ve anointed mys…
I'm going to have to bite at the bait here: your post is guilty of what it's critiquing, and to a larger degree than the post being replied to.
Re: A website to destroy all websites
#387Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yeah, a blog isn't just a place to quickly jot things down, it's actually work. And because it's work, and it's optional, you sort of have to feel like it's "the work you should be doing," or at least part of or ancillary to, "the work you should be doing," or else it will just feel like busywork, and/or get postponed indefinitely. Posting on an existing platform is lower-stakes. But then again, if you end up putting…
Just out of curiosity, do you happen to have or have had a blog? Also, I think part of the problem for me is that I think no-one would would read it anyway, which, depending on how you look at it, can both be an incentive or a disincentive. But sometimes I also think about it as some sort of conversation starter or tool to help me foster conversations. The idea would be to write about some things I happen to talk abo…
Yep, you can put me in the "used to have a blog" category! Toward the end I just got busy on other things and drifted away from it. Been thinking about starting up again lately though, which is why all of this stuff is top-of-mind. I definitely hear you on the "no-one would read it" fears. There's an awful lot of chatter out there, an ocean of it. So it helps (just to flog my earlier point again) if it's part of what you think of as your life's work. But even if only a few friends read it, maybe that's okay too. I never really thought of my own blog as being super important, but it did connect me with a few people.
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#388crux: "the internet feels bad". But, most of the internet is still there, so how could that be. I think more specifically, the current mode of attention capture feels bad - what the majority of people are interacting with feels bad. But those are not "the internet".
A resurgence of people learning LAMP stack is not going to address the Big Problem. I think we should be asking why algo-driven social media roflstomps the indie web, not how to get more web hosters into the indie web.
Re: A website to destroy all websites
#389I think the comments here are a great example of why this idea always sounds better in nostalgic reminiscence than in practice: As I write this, nearly half of the comments here are complaining about this website. There are complaints about requiring JavaScript, the font size, the design, the color choices, the animations. Complaints about everything the designer did to make this site unique and personal, which was t…
Yeah, not everyone wants to just write .md files and push to github webpage :) . I know that's what I personally like doing, but others have a more artistic flair and I try to just let things "be" the way they are. I think the message of the webpage was sincere and that's good enough for me.
Re: A website to destroy all websites
#390I think the comments here are a great example of why this idea always sounds better in nostalgic reminiscence than in practice: As I write this, nearly half of the comments here are complaining about this website. There are complaints about requiring JavaScript, the font size, the design, the color choices, the animations. Complaints about everything the designer did to make this site unique and personal, which was t…
Just saying... you actually don't need JavaScript. I run NoScript, and unlike a lot of sites my HN client opens in-app without the ability to interact with the extension, I could read the site just fine. The only thing 'missing' were the fade-ins, which I found after your comment tempted me to open the site in the full browser and allow scripts from the site I want actually missing. Lovely design, just slightly lovelier without the js.