It might mostly be nostalgia, but I remember websites on the internet in the 90s feeling more like "places". Now everything is, like, an app.. and I don't like it nearly as much.
https://stackingthebricks.com/how-blogs-broke-the-web/
This article describes the capitalistic mechanisms that killed off web*sites*
Capitalism thrives by making things *legible*. Blogs are delightfully easy to parse and index compared to hand-coded websites. Blogs are very quantifiable.
If your mastodon instance was "done", then you could start to explore new mediums for communication and self-expression
Infinite timeline apps just keep you sucked in, creating content for its timeline, forever
starting to mess around with making a website
@oak I have always liked the approach of things like https://hardlyeverything.com and https://www.kawara.app by Jon-Kyle as a way of using social media etc online for breaking down time spent online ^^
@oak i feel like if i didn’t have an infinite stream of content i would have to take up smoking.
it mught be healthier.
@zens tHe wOrLd iS cOnTeNt
@oak i am sure not content
@oak some people can just exist without constant obsessive distraction, without their own minds tearing them up from the inside. i am not one of those people. i’d need like a morphine habit or something
@zens that sounds challenging 🖤
@oak I agree entirely. We're all running on treadmills, creating new content that disappears immediately, but fuels our info to advertisers.
Except for this one. Still a treadmill, though.
I feel like the right to internet access should come bundled with the right to a static web presence. If everyone could host a little data, we'd be far less inclined to jump into these content mudslides.
@rezmason I really like what you're saying, *and* I think that the problem is significantly more systemic than access to posting static data on the web.
@oak Yep, content is what makes users come back. Say, What if you had a compelling app where users created their own content punctuated by third party advertisers You’d just sit back and rake in the dough.
@oak Reminds me of RSS. Some feeds update slowly enough that it is possible to have them all marked "read" in the RSS reader, to be "done" with the feed.
@oak i love it already! your writing is very charming :)
@aynish thanks <3
It makes so much sense: the inverse-sorted timeline, it's *always hungry for more content*.
Imagine how wild it would be if your mastodon TL was "done for the day", or the year, or just *done*.