Hey guys. Had a busy Thanksgiving Thursday. Had to work my normal time but at least I'm getting time and a half (Already much better than BP, where I got jack shit
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It appears to me that the WWW has boiled down to a combination of facebook and Amazon, with little else on offer. Of interest is the appearance of Neocites (not Geocites), which seems to be built on an ethical business model. Free to use, no advertising, no data mining, paid for by users who buy extras for their pages. Meanwhile, it seems to me that here, Yandex is recording all our keystrokes and mouse movements.
It's not the lack of any competition that's getting to me, but it feels as if the internet itself isn't the same carefree entity that it once was.
btw, I know, sorry for the late reply. Haven't really been around as much as I used to. If you got Twitter or Steam or anything like that I'd love to stay in touch. :3
I find that the difference between now and 15+ years ago is the dearth of specialty websites built by regular people for the fun of it, like websites collecting clips from Bambi, animal noises, memorabilia collections... I think people are putting less effort into contributing to this giant virtual sandbox, unless dog-piling in comment sections (like in ONTD) counts as contributing. People reblogging and singing with the choir with likes and hashtags has taken over and that makes for a boring browsing environment. In the early 00's I was expecting more and better webrings on every imaginable topic. I also expected more out on Livejournal. I did manage to find a few artists that blogged here for a time (they're all gone now) but animal care givers have always been rare. I've put most of my eggs in the Dreamwidth basket now (Frith and Ponyville_trot). I have to resort to RSS feeds to put stuff in my reading page.
I don't have a Twitter account and I thought that Steam is for people who enjoy video games. No worries about the delay. 8
Well that depends on what you mean by 'contributing', lol. Sure the technology has gotten better and more sophisticated but it feels more,, how should I say it, corporatized now.
Take Youtube for example. It used to be about ordinary people making and uploading videos of whatever and was open to everyone. Now with ad revenue being a thing the site has bitten the corporate bug and has become just another generic media source.
I asked about Twitter and such because I want to keep in touch. Do you have Discord by any chance?
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btw, I know, sorry for the late reply. Haven't really been around as much as I used to. If you got Twitter or Steam or anything like that I'd love to stay in touch. :3
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I don't have a Twitter account and I thought that Steam is for people who enjoy video games. No worries about the delay. 8
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Take Youtube for example. It used to be about ordinary people making and uploading videos of whatever and was open to everyone. Now with ad revenue being a thing the site has bitten the corporate bug and has become just another generic media source.
I asked about Twitter and such because I want to keep in touch. Do you have Discord by any chance?
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