Post A45z7P9Q4agsAV2Ptg by oak@merveilles.town
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(DIR) Post #A2yC2qit1m5XqHzsum by oak@merveilles.town
2021-01-06T19:02:21Z
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It might mostly be nostalgia, but I remember websites on the internet in the 90s feeling more like "places". Now everything is, like, an app.. and I don't like it nearly as much.
(DIR) Post #A45z7KYPAGhnuXgneC by oak@merveilles.town
2021-01-08T01:39:49Z
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https://stackingthebricks.com/how-blogs-broke-the-web/This article describes the capitalistic mechanisms that killed off web*sites*
(DIR) Post #A45z7M8bHBFip5dDhg by oak@merveilles.town
2021-01-08T01:40:46Z
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It makes so much sense: the inverse-sorted timeline, it's *always hungry for more content*.Imagine how wild it would be if your mastodon TL was "done for the day", or the year, or just *done*.
(DIR) Post #A45z7NgfW069d2ZwRc by oak@merveilles.town
2021-01-08T01:43:50Z
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Capitalism thrives by making things *legible*. Blogs are delightfully easy to parse and index compared to hand-coded websites. Blogs are very quantifiable.
(DIR) Post #A45z7OgLofREiLRCaW by oak@merveilles.town
2021-01-08T02:04:27Z
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starting to mess around with making a websitehttp://eight45.net
(DIR) Post #A45z7P9Q4agsAV2Ptg by oak@merveilles.town
2021-01-08T01:45:57Z
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If your mastodon instance was "done", then you could start to explore new mediums for communication and self-expressionInfinite timeline apps just keep you sucked in, creating content for its timeline, forever
(DIR) Post #A4HfOWdvYcbHh8JZD6 by Moon@shitposter.club
2021-02-15T02:25:31.472211Z
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@oak just turn it off. I spend most of my day not looking at "mastodon"
(DIR) Post #A4HgV2kXCNyMxm4pHM by 9gcarz2naIwb0S3nkm.JoYo@thejoyo.com
2021-02-15T02:37:54.368359Z
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@Moon @oak serendipity holds more value to me than algorithms.In your own mind there are multiple endless streams.You spend most of your time ignoring them.
(DIR) Post #A4Hgu4qCYmg2gmfGaG by Moon@shitposter.club
2021-02-15T02:42:25.854285Z
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@JoYo @oak artificially stopping the timeline is more of a manipulative algorithm than just showing things as they are written, isn't it?
(DIR) Post #A4HmOlckYdplpvpHiy by Zach777@fosstodon.org
2021-02-15T03:43:43Z
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@oak Places still have people saying and doing things with each other that will ultimately be forgotten save for slivers of memories. I think it is just about finding a small group that you can interact with. Fosstodon.org is pretty neat for me. And I have several Discord groups that I feel like are a place. I was a part of large old school forum back in the day. It had a general focus but certainly did not feel like a place in the same way a smaller group does.
(DIR) Post #A4HolAf4Lk5Flfio2i by okabe_rintarou@shitposter.club
2021-02-15T04:10:27.647112Z
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@oak I don't necessity need it to be an app, but at least have a mobile site. But in the end, the problem is just that you can't keep up with everything. So many sites and services that want your attention.There were sites that I visited daily religiously, but completely forgot about at some point. People can just get informed about new content via social media.But there's one alternative still: Email newsletters, but not every site offers them. I like newsletters.
(DIR) Post #A4IbhZ1cierpvVBHSy by philo@dobbs.town
2021-02-15T13:18:49Z
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@oak Yep, content is what makes users come back. Say, What if you had a compelling app where users created their own content punctuated by third party advertisers You’d just sit back and rake in the dough.