platforms and silosNotes internet users en masse being siloed by unnecessarily proprietary platforms and non-interoperable data formats freedom of movement in ‘fediverse’ and similar ecosystems internet platforms as compared to physically isolated locations boundaries, entrance, mediated communications affiliations, groupings, territory metaphors for these spaces Mentions “Since the introduction of timeline, one might see Facebook as a passport to participating in the most prevalent form of capturing, mediating, and archiving personal life accounts.” “Facebook locks the subject into a specific techno-economic regime of navigation through mediated memories. There is a contract and transaction written into every passport. In return for the right to freely cross borders, the authority has right to control this mobility, while acquiring insight into the subject’s personal information.” -> ⤴️ ...
web the many ways in which this comes about in each new age of too much noise. particular sites or blogs curating good content Facebook pages or other social media accounts that curate external content clip compilations for video formats repost-only blogs and short-form video accounts search engine curation that has now become AI assisted search personality driven clip shows on traditional and newer media with varying levels of success the whole genre of reddit rereads currently, substack(?) or medium subscriptions or general email newsletters that feature miscellaneous links, signal a return to earlier internet need fir curation but now due to oversaturation ...
Is the madness ever going to end? “Why is it that people keep inventing so-called “revolutionary new ways” of doing the same old thing? And they do that by adding more and more unnecessary complexity on top of existing technologies.” ⤴️ “requires about 3 times as much electrical power even though you’re only serving text and perhaps a few images.” ⤴️ “Why in the world has this idiotic trend of abstracting everything away by layers upon layers of unimpressive complexity gained such a strong foothold in the industry?” ⤴️ “It is irresponsible to keep throwing more hardware at a problem that doesn’t need to exist in the first place.” ⤴️ “Everyone is experiencing the pain of using the web daily.” ⤴️ “Simple websites that contain nothing more that text and images takes forever to load, they only work in a few major browsers, and they are suffering from a flood of almost daily security issues. Turn off JavaScript and nothing gets displayed even though no is JavaScript is needed for anything.” ⤴️ “yes you can get something running quickly, but they always pay a heavy price in the long run.” ⤴️ “because friends and family complain about how bad this or that website has become, but mainly because I, as an independent contractor, am faced with clients who, as a result of this mess, have suffered greatly at the hands of so-called modern web developers.” ⤴️ ""Modern” web development has standardized in tool stacks which are insanely complicated, far beyond anything that is warranted in most cases. We have forgotten how to make simple things in simple ways.” ⤴️ “At a minimum you need node, npm, webpack, babel, an spa framework, a frontend router, a css transpiler, a css framework, a test runner, a testing functions library, and a bunch of smaller things, and that’s just what is “needed” to build a static website with a bit of interaction. We’re not even talking about the dockerized insanity that happens as soon as you want to slide an API under that beast.” ⤴️ ...