AnilNov 17, 2022
With the revitalization of the open web and the fediverse, it’s worth revisiting all of the parts of the social web that we’ve lost, and reflecting on how we might rebuild them in a Mastodon world. https://anildash.com/2016/08/08/the-lost-infrastructure-of-social-media/
The lost infrastructure of social media.

More than a decade ago, the earliest era of blogging provided a set of separate but related technologies that helped the nascent form thrive. Today, most have faded away and been forgotten, but new incarnations of these features could still be valuable.As social networks grew in popularity and influence,

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Similarly, we've lost a lot of public social space IRL. We've become used to the fountain in the mall. We've forgotten that we used to spend time in places where "public" meant something different from "visible to others who have been allowed into this private space".

Nov 18, 2022 at 4:38amWeb