anything on reddit gets shit on by 13 year olds who don’t know anything besides constant adaption to change.
That comment and this thread reminds me of this line from Cory Doctorow’s book Walkaway:
Anything invented before you were eighteen was there all along. Anything invented before you’re 30 is exciting and will change the world forever. Anything invented after that is an abomination and should be banned.
The tracking, the crap algorithms—they’re bad for user experience and they’re bad for society as a whole. But there is good stuff, too. I think that things like RSS (something old that is still amazingly supported but not consciously used enough), ActivityPub, and others can empower us to break free from the bad stuff while embracing the good.
Separate the content from how the content is viewed and we’ll change the incentives for (and power held by) for those who have turned it to such garbage.
That comment and this thread reminds me of this line from Cory Doctorow’s book Walkaway:
The tracking, the crap algorithms—they’re bad for user experience and they’re bad for society as a whole. But there is good stuff, too. I think that things like RSS (something old that is still amazingly supported but not consciously used enough), ActivityPub, and others can empower us to break free from the bad stuff while embracing the good.
Separate the content from how the content is viewed and we’ll change the incentives for (and power held by) for those who have turned it to such garbage.
Walkaway is a great book!