How blogs broke the web
We became slaves to reverse chronology
https://stackingthebricks.com/how-blogs-broke-the-web/
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@bitsavers Yeah, I remember hating the idea of blogs so much that I didn't want to take part in that. Back when it was a cool thing. But now everything went so much further downhill that old blogs don't even loog that bad.
Gemini kinda brings back that fell for me — when the pages were done by hand. And with gemlogs you don't feel obliged to update constantly. And this can co-exist with pages made by hand nicely.
Information siloing in walled gardens is something I think about a lot. The same problem exists with Discord
@bitsavers Maybe this is the format we should embrace, the web looks like it's going to collapse under its weight anyway 🤷
So much wasted processing power and electricity and disk space. And you can't even archive/preserve that stuff properly, there are certain tools for that, but imagine if Facebook goes out of business, the interconnectedness between all that stuff is lost forever — it just disappears.