We Built This City!
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Bring back web 1.0
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I never understood why seemingly everyone uses WP. 'I need a personal, but professional, web presence' 'use this blogging platform', 'I need an e-commerce site' 'use this blogging platform' like what.
Maybe I'm old and WP now does everything and the kitchen sink, but I was there when it started and made no sense.
Now it has the kitchen sink AND vulnerabilities… and an asshole CEO.
As someone who managed it for a while, WP as a platform isn’t horrendous, but there are definitely better alternatives depending on what you need to accomplish.
Sadly it’s still a defacto standard.
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The other day I saw someone posting about wanting to bring webrings back.
Unfortunately, it's really hard to get people to care about things. "This site is convenient and your friends are here" trumps "and it's run by nazi sympathizers" for most people, somehow.
I remember webrings. We stopped using them for a reason. It's not a solution for diving into specific details of a topic.
Neither is the AI slop that Google is putting at the top of the page, but for different reasons.
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The other day I saw someone posting about wanting to bring webrings back.
Unfortunately, it's really hard to get people to care about things. "This site is convenient and your friends are here" trumps "and it's run by nazi sympathizers" for most people, somehow.
Until the Nazism starts leaking through.
Like, I don't really feel the urge to bring up the horrifying treatment of Latin American peoples every time I see someone drinking a Coca-Cola.
But when Twitter is filling up my feed with CatTurds, I'm inclined to leave.
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I miss the old days of people making niche websites for their hobbies, their own blogs, and message boards.
So many people think of the Internet as Google, Meta, Netflix, or <favorite social network here>. That makes me sad.
I don't see a way back to a less commercialized internet, but little pockets of goodness like Lemmy make me happy.
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Cities start from villages.
That's what we've got here now.
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When I first learned HTML there was no such thing as CSS. Everything was tables and
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I remember webrings. We stopped using them for a reason. It's not a solution for diving into specific details of a topic.
Neither is the AI slop that Google is putting at the top of the page, but for different reasons.
Webrings were the youtube recommendations by people who actually knew, not deep diving. Wikipedia is the diving board for deep diving.
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Cities start from villages.
That's what we've got here now.
can I be the feces smearing barrel sleeper
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I have as much power as the Pope, I just don't have as many people who believe it
- George Carlin
Power, popularity and authority is always based on how many people you can convince to follow your movement. If you have enough people who believe it, I can become Master of the Universe!
Power lies where men believe it lies
— George Martin
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We built this geocity
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I miss the old days of people making niche websites for their hobbies, their own blogs, and message boards.
So many people think of the Internet as Google, Meta, Netflix, or <favorite social network here>. That makes me sad.
I don't see a way back to a less commercialized internet, but little pockets of goodness like Lemmy make me happy.
wrote last edited by [email protected]The thing that I've repeated more than anything else the past 5-10 years:
I miss websites.
[Edit] ok second most. I think I've said "RELEASE THE LIST" at least twice as much.
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Power lies where men believe it lies
— George Martin
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can I be the feces smearing barrel sleeper
Only if you eat your vegetables
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The thing that I've repeated more than anything else the past 5-10 years:
I miss websites.
[Edit] ok second most. I think I've said "RELEASE THE LIST" at least twice as much.
I miss things spreading by word-of-mouth, not The Algorithm.
I miss people making things for fun, not for the exit strategy.
I miss misinformation being called out and bullied mercilessly, not rewarded for Engagement.
I miss Nazi being hyperbole, not an alternative viewpoint we're supposed to acknowledge as valid.
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We built this geocity
We built this Geocity on rock and code!
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It's good more people are realizing, buts substack's owners have been openly pro-facist for at least a year
Loads of early tech leaders who were all free-love back in the day became strangely capitalist once they realised how ludicrously rich they could get.
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In economics, a network effect (also called network externality or demand-side economies of scale) is the phenomenon by which the value or utility a user derives from a good or service depends on the number of users of compatible products. Network effects are typically positive feedback systems, resulting in users deriving more and more value from a product as more users join the same network.
The value of Twitter and Substack isn't the HTML or the CSS, it's the social circle behind it. That's why Facebook, founded as a Harvard social media site, outpaced Friendster and MySpace. That's why half your current crop of comedians and media pundits came out of the Ivy League. That's why The Federalist Society exists.
Like, by all means, make a new BlueSky or Mastodon or Lemmy whatever. Thank you. But "What if we had a new Facebook, for annoying marketing dweebs?" it's how we got LinkedIn. And a thousand other knock offs of LinkedIn.
So, keep that in mind.
Add to that section 1201.
Facebook grew because it was able to make migrating away from Myspace easy. Facebook supplied a tool called SpaceLift that logged into MySpace on your behalf and moved messages back and forth for you. It meant that you didn't have to leave Myspace behind when you started using Facebook.
If you tried that today, Facebook would send their legion of lawyers to crush you using section 1201.
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A-weema-weh, a-weema-weh, a-weema-weh, a-weema-wehNever ceases to move me.
