Posts by dscnode@videos.lukesmith.xyz
(DIR) Post #9xjfsLh3Kt1DRw5fV2 by dscnode@videos.lukesmith.xyz
2020-08-03T05:37:05.819Z
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@angel In fairness, OB was designed with the intent of replacing Silk Road etc. in mind. They know what they're doing.What matters is that their client isn't too much of a pain to use (not much, in my experience).
(DIR) Post #9y2DxNNtN2EvQdyY3k by dscnode@videos.lukesmith.xyz
2020-08-12T04:23:58.689Z
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@avit @kilter PeerTube effectively does this already when federating with other ActivityPub instances. Aside from the strange tendency to log me out after apparently clicking the wrong page, it generally has most all the functionality it needs right now.Whoever designs the similarly-functioning tools around other uses or forms of data, they would do well to make sure that both user indexing - a client's ability to keep track of the identities and content of others - as well as the ability to properly categorise, organise and search all of this data, are inherent to the program.
(DIR) Post #9yM63yIhaH10WcaQmu by dscnode@videos.lukesmith.xyz
2020-08-21T18:29:41.957Z
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That 'mechanistic' frame of mind is no doubt a product of broadcast media (and other factors like education), irrespective of its content, inculcating them with the same expectations from the rest of their life as they are being given there, deriving ultimately from a learned sense of helplessness that is necessary to keep the current cycle churning along. Unfortunately the Web isn't -that- different, and where it is, it's usually to people's detriment. On the upside, when it is inevitably taken over, its successor will likely bring the rest of the system down with it.
(DIR) Post #A3LDTPo0hcOuJkwupM by dscnode@videos.lukesmith.xyz
2021-01-17T21:38:22.995Z
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Can we get that thumbnail in full res?
(DIR) Post #A4snUySWS260Y2jPXc by dscnode@videos.lukesmith.xyz
2021-03-05T00:20:35.392Z
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You had me in the first 8 seconds tbh.
(DIR) Post #ACA1BmPrBi7HAMNRlA by dscnode@videos.lukesmith.xyz
2021-09-15T13:27:52.099Z
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That Google (as well as YouTube) would want to suffocate what was no doubt the most sophisticated of public information retrieval methods we had, to the degree that they do, is nothing short of a tragedy.I would make an exemption for indexing Twitter here, as their cache has allowed me to find a lot of URLs or entire posts for Tweets that have been deleted or censored in some way, and archive them. As far as the normie conception of there 'only being 5 websites', I'd say that they are essentially right in some ways. And the fact that Google continues to keep their results more and more insular (as far as the incestuous Silicon Valley / legacy media / technocratic political establishment goes) is probably a conscious play as far as this is concerned, as it only helps in their steady consolidation of everything.I think the solution here, which some of us are already carrying out by starting our own blogs, ActivityPub instances etc. is not unlike how we should be solving our much broader social problems (and can really be considered a part of it). That is, a return to a sense of locality in a world that is bent on destroying it. If I am looking for how to change the oil in my car, and my friend happens to be a mechanic, well, now everybody in my e-circle has access to that information that will be lost to most, because of the nature of search engines and the changing Web. The mutual, personal familiarity of everyone bypasses the 'trust test' that would ordinarily be required in judging the authority of random sources, and it's less susceptible to centralised changes from gigantic Judeo-American companies. Like shopping at a friend's business.