RSS never tracked you.
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RSS never tracked you.
Email never throttled you.
Blogs never begged for dopamine.
The old web wasn’t perfect.
But it was yours.@Daojoan I was so sad a couple weeks ago when the SMBC feed removed the content. I'll only see it now when it gets shared by copy/paste.
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@Daojoan to join the "well actually" crowd, email absolutely did have throttling, although retry and backoff logic tended to be much more reliable and well-tested back then
there was a lot of the old internet that wasn't democratized and "yours" (e.g. acquiring connectivity, acquiring compute), although the details have shifted around a lot
@r @Daojoan I feel like there were models for democratized connectivity? The earliest setup I remember using was through torfree.net, and they were one of a group of freenets running under a co-op model, I think. Looks like they’re still around and offering free service as well, which is a pleasant surprise.
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@r @Daojoan I feel like there were models for democratized connectivity? The earliest setup I remember using was through torfree.net, and they were one of a group of freenets running under a co-op model, I think. Looks like they’re still around and offering free service as well, which is a pleasant surprise.
@Serenus @Daojoan yeah, this existed in various places (*especially* _outside_ the United States, where suburbia and monopolies really ruined things). there also existed people hosting stuff on spare computers and using dynamic dns providers
you gain some, you lose some. nowadays connectivity and compute are *way* easier and more affordable, but the cultural knowledge that you _can_ self-host seems to be disappearing
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RSS never tracked you.
Email never throttled you.
Blogs never begged for dopamine.
The old web wasn’t perfect.
But it was yours.@Daojoan And it still is
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RSS never tracked you.
Email never throttled you.
Blogs never begged for dopamine.
The old web wasn’t perfect.
But it was yours.@Daojoan the internet has changed significantly, now it the time to take it back!
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RSS never tracked you.
Email never throttled you.
Blogs never begged for dopamine.
The old web wasn’t perfect.
But it was yours.@Daojoan The old web was perfect. The browser showed you when a page was loading and you knew when it was done loading. Now I never know if the element I'm about to click on is going to change or if the whole page is going to shift.
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@forst Problem with that is - we often paywall our stuff these days so that it isn’t all just scraped and summarised by a smorgasbord of bots. It’s such a balancing problem
@Daojoan hello I've been following your post for a while most say you are part of the reason I'm still on here
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RSS never tracked you.
Email never throttled you.
Blogs never begged for dopamine.
The old web wasn’t perfect.
But it was yours.@Daojoan
Yeah!
The old web is still there.
I use RSS with fluent-reader
I use email with #deltachat
I use a blog with own domainYou just have to ignore the commercial Social Media and advertising with f.e. uBlock, then you'll see it
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@Daojoan my Dragonball Z angelfire fan page with an endless scroll of stolen gifs however did beg for dopamine
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RSS never tracked you.
Email never throttled you.
Blogs never begged for dopamine.
The old web wasn’t perfect.
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RSS never tracked you.
Email never throttled you.
Blogs never begged for dopamine.
The old web wasn’t perfect.
But it was yours.@Daojoan
To me, they are just passive web, much unlike the active web now.
They will never die, unlike the companys. -
RSS never tracked you.
Email never throttled you.
Blogs never begged for dopamine.
The old web wasn’t perfect.
But it was yours.Usenet news groups stayed on topic!
They were organized by topic.
I keep wondering why we abandoned that idea.
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(Well yes, it's still there and one can still use it. But so much of it has been taken over by robots pushing spam.
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@Daojoan blogs definitely begged for dopamine, but it was slower release than the kind we have now.
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RSS never tracked you.
Email never throttled you.
Blogs never begged for dopamine.
The old web wasn’t perfect.
But it was yours.@Daojoan @lisamelton Hell, now most people use a browser that’s spyware from a marketing company. Dark times.
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@Daojoan @lisamelton Hell, now most people use a browser that’s spyware from a marketing company. Dark times.
@mingistech @lisamelton Indeed.
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RSS never tracked you.
Email never throttled you.
Blogs never begged for dopamine.
The old web wasn’t perfect.
But it was yours.@Daojoan yes! Agreed!
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RSS never tracked you.
Email never throttled you.
Blogs never begged for dopamine.
The old web wasn’t perfect.
But it was yours.You clearly never owed Email money.
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Stop romanticizing the old web. It’s flawed but should be acknowledged for what it is.
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@Daojoan but...but...KPIs! engagement metrics!
@patrick_h_lauke @Daojoan noticed how they never measure engagement with family and friends? Set KPIs for mental wellbeing and sleep cycle? It's like they work for big psychiatry!
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Usenet news groups stayed on topic!
They were organized by topic.
I keep wondering why we abandoned that idea.
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(Well yes, it's still there and one can still use it. But so much of it has been taken over by robots pushing spam.
)@JeffGrigg @Daojoan pathetic penis pill pushing profiteers. Not just the placebos, but mostly.
