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"People sometimes end up on obscure sites run by just... anyone. A page made by a local club is as easy to find as a corporate site."

I didn't realize that the guy I was talking with about the internet in 1999 thought of this as a *problem* to be solved... not what made the internet awesome.

All along there have been people who see everything you love about the internet as an unfortunate design oversight, something to be fixed. And they've been working for decades to make it happen.

Gabriel N · 4w

nostr:nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnyd968gmewwp6kyqpqzdp33shl69xr0uq3x8n5gsjykq9upycwh6nqm02c3f6x0frrn0dqlrpfuj yes! You can see it when comparing Flickr, which embraces the web, with Instagram, who denies it, and in the end, who got to define the terms in which people share images. This repeated...

myrmepropagandist · 4w

All this time... they hate it. They hated how creative it was, they hated the serendipity, the intense meritocracy of memes and social vitality. All of the magical chaos that had me so delighted and charmed ... I don't know why I didn't see this sooner.

Urzl · 4w

nostr:nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnyd968gmewwp6kyqpqzdp33shl69xr0uq3x8n5gsjykq9upycwh6nqm02c3f6x0frrn0dqlrpfuj They're authoritarian down to their bones. If nobody in authority tells them something has value, they don't believe it does.

llewelly · 4w

nostr:nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnyd968gmewwp6kyqpqzdp33shl69xr0uq3x8n5gsjykq9upycwh6nqm02c3f6x0frrn0dqlrpfuj all through the 1990s, and to a lesser extent during the early 2000s, most of the publishing industry, especially magazines and newspapers, was thoroughly hostile to the world wide web,...

Jay 🆘 · 3w

nostr:nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnyd968gmewwp6kyqpqzdp33shl69xr0uq3x8n5gsjykq9upycwh6nqm02c3f6x0frrn0dqlrpfuj Who was this? Not specifically, but like, what was his role/job/deal? And was the conversation in 1999, or was this a recent conversation about the internet in 1999?