📢 New Essay: The Boring Internet

[thelunarfox@mindly.social]

@wanderinghermit @tg Your browser may have a button to make it easier to read. I'm using Chrome, and under the options there's an option to "show reading mode."

[wanderinghermit@mindly.social]

@Thelunarfox @tg

Cool, I'll try that. Good to know, thanks!

[wanderinghermit@mindly.social]

@Thelunarfox @tg

Wow, reading mode (or SpeedReader as Brave calls it) is a game-changer. Thank you so much!

Learned something new today...

[ghosttie@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@tg if they DDoS scrape it to death it'll die

[nethad@swiss.social]

@tg lovely essay, I feel the same way ️

[swade2569@mastodon.social]

@tg Ah such a wonderful trip down memory lane. Usenet and alt.binaries The lessons learned from encoding binaries has served me well. Thanks for the memories and a little reassurance all is not lost.

[grumpykaiju@mastodon.social]

@tg Great essay! The modern web feels like a panopticon where every action is immediately fed into an algorithm without being asked. And yet, the truly great things are only recommended by real humans.

[hinnerk@mastodon.social]

@fasnix @tg @johl Maybe I was stuck a bit in the past. They seem to have come over the issues they had. Still no way for a concept to authenticate a user afaik. Everything is very public but dependng on the intention that may not necessarily be a problem.

[c_riesen@openbiblio.social]

@tg Thank you for writing and sharing this, Terry! Most important thing I've read in a while. There is a kinship to libraries in there somewhere I'm interested in exploring. (Thanks to @datn for sharing)

[artfulrobot@floss.social]

@CowMan @sr_rolando @tg haha I gave up reading because of that UI. Every paragraph I read was interrupted by the next one "loading". Good that there's a button to do away with it but not going back now.

I wonder if it was normal and there was a button instead that said "make it all fadey and disappear when you scroll back" anyone would click it?

[miss_rodent@girlcock.club]

@tg Yeah, a significant frustration I've had for a while is trying to get parts of my community to actually move to the boring-but-resilient options. I've had some luck dragging a few people over to XMPP, for example, but many are still stubbornly clinging to things like discord, and presumably won't leave until a chatbot asks for an HD scan of their ID & what their political affiliations are.