The internet has changed. Not for the better.
A big part of it used to be linking between sites. Ideas and information connected. Now the biggest platforms downrank anything that sends you away.
Headlines used to inform. Now they’re just clickbait.
It used to feel like a place for human creativity and shared knowledge. Now it’s increasingly just computer generated content.
Feels like we’ve engineered ourselves into a corner where the internet is no longer the information hub we need.
@simonbs blogging never stopped
By sheer popularity, the mainstream approach is different, so it's fair to say that "the internet has changed" in aggregate
But we can easily recreate corners for communities like this again
@ctietze Blogging is there but no popular channels will promote your content unless you extremely cleverly game their algorithm, ideally putting money down too.
I get that I’m pessimistic but sinding see how we can “easily” recreate that again.
But hey — I’d be happy to be wrong here 😃
@simonbs I know it's bleak, but we are all the hope we have, so! :)
would you love to be part of a Swift dev carnival? I started one for Emacs and it's going great. :)
@simonbs @ctietze Why “popular channels” should work for your interests? They exist to make profit. That’s natural.
The recent exp growth of the littering of the info space is a challenge though. But it also should be an incentive for efforts/experiments/systems/businesses for curation/moderation/filtering/discovery.
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