#indieweb 2021-08-31

2021-08-31 UTC
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Loqi [indienews] New post: https://publ.plaidweb.site/blog/80-Authl-v0-5-2
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[KevinMarks] https://www.garbageday.email/p/making-algorithmic-dog-food-for-the
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[tantek] dat preview text tho 😂
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[KevinMarks] https://www.zdnet.com/article/facebook-is-the-aol-of-2021/
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[tantek] heh
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[arush] I would have said Facebook is the AOL of the 21st century, except ten times worse.
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[tantek] indeed
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[tantek] huh, that article takes A LOT of liberties with the narrative it tells
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[tantek] lol I don't remember any person who used AOL disks who later became excited about the "finger" program. those were disjoint sets AFAIK
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[tantek] "Then people cooled on Friendster" <- nah, Friendster became so irresponsively slow that people lost patience with it and gave up checking it every day
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[tantek] (btw, when they rewrote it in Java because they thought that would solve all their PHP problems. instead the switch to Java basically destroyed the site's performance)
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[tantek] "business people, and they created new services, including a service called MySpace" <- uh no, MySpace was founded by Tom, a hacker & creative person.
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[tantek] wow this is a worse summary than The Social Network: "Finally, some smart people hit on a formula and they created some brand-new places for people to meet. / / One of them was called Facebook."
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[tantek] ok this is a good summary: "People had thought they were relating to one another, but they were really screaming at one another like in a school lunchroom food fight."
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[tantek] at least the article ending is optimistic. won't spoil it ;)
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[tantek] (parts of this story would make a good lightning talk at an IWC)
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[KevinMarks] it's a bit overdone, yes
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[KevinMarks] https://hardcoresoftware.learningbyshipping.com/p/044-our-first-big-m-and-a-deal-beating
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[tw2113_Slack_] ooh trailblazer
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[KevinMarks] "Really, though, Google Buzz was four days of terror and then it died" https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/08/a-decade-and-a-half-of-instability-the-history-of-google-messaging-apps/
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[chrisaldrich] Imagining what a multi-dynamic bookmark would look like on my personal website: https://www.khanacademy.org/humanities/medieval-world/medieval-book/using-medieval-book/a/smart-bookmarks
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