![]() ![]() It's just that newcomers don't care about them so much. > "We" haven't really lost any of these things. And that doesn't really seem to be going anywhere. As long as I have my crufty greyboard corner in the Internet's basement, I'm happy. But to be honest, now that I'm middle-aged I don't so much care about being at the forefront of the hype wave anyway. To an extent, it is a bummer to no longer be at the forefront of the hype wave. ![]() The "positive" bit about Rust being "the language of the future" gives me the impression that you're mostly mourning geek culture being delegated to a side subculture, instead of being the dominant culture of the Internet itself. Brave, Vivaldi, etc), then I can live with that. But as long as the engine is open source, and there's a possibility of more privacy-conscious players leveraging it (e.g. Just to the extent that browser engine monoculture gives Google a lot of power. The only thing on this list that's a halfway decent point is Firefox user share. But pretty much ALL of them are better than Lycos, Infoseek, AltaVista, and all of the old-school competitors who lost to Google. True, none of them may be as good as Google. It's just that there's a bigger population on social media sites. Moreover, websites and blogs are still around, and just as populated as they ever were. But so what? Few if any of those eyeballs are really interested in the things that I'm interested in from websites, blogs, etc. Social media platforms "took over" in the sense of having more eyeballs. Why would I be upset that that some teen or 20-something, who primarily uses the internet to post and browse selfies on social media, does so from a phone rather than a IBM/Lenovo ThinkPad? Their main use case is Instagram or TikTok. "We" haven't really lost any of these things. Most of what you're describing is simply an extension of Eternal September. The indie, free and open web got knee-kicked by the giants. These negative externalities coupled with high concentrations of users to platforms has left a wake of destruction. To do so they had to destroy the competition and create a moat. Each company it super simple to adopt their platform. It's a simple story: billions and billions of dollars chased after capturing and exploiting the average human user. We've discovered we're now renting everything and craftsmanship has withered away to a world of composability and integration. Except in our case, everything's suddenly shiny, but feels plastic and artificial. It's like when Link wakes up in Ocarina of Time after retrieving the Master Sword. Riot is a pretty distant third.Ī few things have improved, though: Git is pretty freaking sweet, and Rust is the language of the future. We invented some cool protocols along the way (blockchain), but also lost a few that were really great (bittorrent, DHT). They want everything to be Chrome.įirefox doesn't have as much user share because of aforementioned browser. AMP, steering away from semantic web, etc. It's pretty obvious that Google is trying to kill the web. This search engine built a browser and is now trying to destroy ad blockers via extension capability removal and web bundles. There's one search engine, and it has a pretty big moat. ![]() Facebook pages and subreddits are not the same. Why spend effort building for the long tail?įorum communities are dead because of social media. Nobody really bothers with personal websites or blogs anymore since the majority of the population get their news from social media. The social media platforms took over from websites. Add to that the fact that we have to go through a distribution channel that takes a 30% cut. We can't easily install the software we want on our devices (iPhone especially, but Android also to an extent). Most people are using less configurable computers: phones. We've lost so much since the 90's and 00's. ![]()
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