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Re: "Infinite Scrolling and hyper personalization are evil"
@clseibold thanks for the explanation. I saw the movie a while ago but didn't know it was about all that.
I get your frustration with everything being 1984 reference but sometimes when you have a good, common reference I think it's fine to use. I wouldn't have known about superbia. Being this isn't the regular web I think the occasional reference is fine, but again I get the normal overuse on the web.
2023-12-15 · 8 months ago
🦂 urbanhacker [OP] · 2023-12-16 at 12:48:
I just looked at superbia and it’s fascinating how it predicted in some way the future we are now living. I’m more familiar with 1984 like many people and I was not aware about Superbia.
There is also the death internet theory that says most of the content we consume / interact with are generated by bots and farms to keep us addicted.
I also wonder if (maybe this is elitist) with the ease of use to create / add bullshit you just have low quality because you have no effort to think. You can just vomit your toxicity.
While with this BBS (and similar to other BBS in the 90) you need to access it, its quirky, you can’t just sweep left / right so before answering I need to think deeper and longer.
Infinite Scrolling and hyper personalization are evil — I miss the old BBS and forums long gone the few that exist are like ghost town. Once in a blue moon I go back and I remember vividly certain topics or obscure knowledge bits. The ability to navigate and map the information with section, broken down into topics and comments. The main page was the same for everybody and everybody knew what the other would get. Those are two things missing from the modern web. Both infinite scrolling and...
💬 urbanhacker · 13 comments · 11 likes · 2023-12-13 · 8 months ago