Subj : BBS Population, DWeb, Re_AOL
To   : Arelor
From : Ogg
Date : Sun Oct 16 2022 17:24:00

Hello Arelor!

** On Thursday 06.10.22 - 05:40, Arelor wrote to Ogg:

 >> I've heard the same that FB membership is on a decline, but
 >> I haven't heard what users are replacing it with.
 >> Instagram seems like a total waste of time to me; it
 >> doesn't foster comms - it foster's "look at me and my
 >> stuff!"

 A> It loooks like IM from mobile platforms is the prefered
 A> substitute for facebook and other common social media,
 A> which sounds bonkers to me because they are not the same
 A> thing at all. However, that is how it seems to be :-)

A very interesting podcast about a week ago:

Oct. 9, 2022: 554: The promise and legacy of the early web

The web of the '90s and early '00s has inspired many nostalgic
projects, but it's not just the aesthetics that people miss.
This week, we take a look at the efforts to build a new, open,
decentralized web. Canadian programmer Mike Killingbeck talks
about building RE-AOL, a re-creation of the beloved early-web
platform. Writer, COMPOSTmag editor and senior organizer with
DWeb projects at the Internet Archive Mai Ishikawa Sutton, and
Alicia Urquidi DĦaz, metadata & data services librarian at
University of Toronto's Scholars Portal and volunteer archivist
at DWeb camp, discuss the ideas of the decentralized web.


https://www.cbc.ca/listen/live-radio/1-55-spark/clip/15941206- 
554-the-promise-legacy-early-web

The first interview is with a fellow you has built RE-AOL - an  
interface that emulates the look and feel of the original AOL  
environment.

Other interviews are about DWeb.

Throughout all interviews, there were elements about the BBSes  
of retro days.

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