Hi from the stuff posting system.
I wish you linked to the Mastodon version of this comic, instead of the bird site: https://mastodon.social/@MrLovenstein/112054862268601490
Fair!
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I understand and obviously agree or else I wouldn’t be vaguely gestures to everyone around him
But let’s not live in fantasy land. Capitalism rules the internet and like it’s old predecessor Feudalism there’s one rule. Bigger Army (bank account) diplomacy. None of the other rules matter if you’re big enough to write them. Nobody will willingly give up their level of control of the internet and everyone who takes it will do so with the objective of replacing them not dethroning
Open source will eventually create viable platforms, I’m not giving up until platforms successfully campaign to kill free alternatives
they successfully killed xmpp, google seems hellbent on hijacking the internet with their drm thing, meta wants to federate like they did when they killed xmpp…
i dunno if you are right but they will definetly put up a fight.
I assume if Lemmy ever got big enough to be an actual threat, the big guys would do something about it. I’m not sure what though, but something.
I mean, this is what the internet started out as; and I think we’re slowly coming back around to it.
Anyone wanna join my webring? I mean…uhh…my fediverse? Or whatever?
“Stuff posting”
So, BBSes and Newsgroups.
What, you thought social media was ever anything more?
Everything old is new again. But are we gonna go back to dialup modems for a purer analog hipster lifestyle?
Not going to happen. The majority of users are tech illiterate. They have no idea to set this up nor any desire to pay domain name fees and web hosting fees…
Only a few techies like us might do it but nothing more than that.
Plus it doesn’t work the way they think. I already have a blog and occasionally post there and share it to social media. All the interaction, if there is any, happens on social, not on my blog.
Blogs are simply a place to post long form content but not designed for massive amount of replies and social interaction.
The problem is dns, we have to kill dns and the verisign-industrial-complex.
This is how the Internet was always meant to be. You’re supposed to create and host your own content, then link to content on other sites. Silos are useful but they’ve gone too far. An established system for sharing media like this needed to happen.
I have a blog and a gallery on my own domain. I just want a system for people to interact and recommend my blog and photos that isn’t WordPress, and that is so damn hard to find. A federated wibbly wobbly, timey wimey stuff that connects existing sites.
Some kind of ring that links webs together?
None of that is new, it’s just not profitable and so we (humankind) dropped it.
Webrings were cool but flawed. I’d like something like tumblr, where you can comment and @ someone, but in a federated system where each would manage their own.
I thought about using Mastodon as a comment system for my blog but the tools to accomplish it are way over my head. I’m not a developer, just someone who happens to know how to install a CMS and to tweak some HTML and CSS.
Wish someone would build one that made it really easy to connect to everyone in your email and phone contacts. Instead we have Twitter 2 electric boogaloo.
This repost is so old that it is the very first tab in my browser. For the record, I have [~] tabs open. I have had [~] tabs open from some time in 2023. That’s how old it is.
