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   Jonathan Korman (miniver@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 04-Nov-2023 14:48:34 JST Jonathan Korman

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   • Olu

   @oluOnline

   It is tempting to assume that distributed architectures are inherently democratic, egalitarian, even liberatory.

   They are not.

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     Olu (oluonline@social.gfsc.studio)'s status on Saturday, 04-Nov-2023 14:48:42 JST Olu

     In case there are any obvious conclusions I'm missing:

     What do people think the biggest lessons from the history of the web are? What do you hope "comes back", what are you hoping stays dead, and what do you hope is to come?

     I'd appreciate RTs (and long detailed replies lol)!

     GreenSkyOverMe (Monika) repeated this.
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     Børge (forteller@tutoteket.no)'s status on Sunday, 05-Nov-2023 02:14:45 JST Børge

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     • Olu

     @oluOnline Maybe that we should build things with encryption and privacy from the beginning, not having to add that later on?

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     Sten the Sten (thatsten@fosstodon.org)'s status on Monday, 06-Nov-2023 03:26:28 JST Sten the Sten

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     • Olu
     • Brian Fenton

     @brianfenton

     @oluOnline

     +1 to this. I feel like 2000-ish was the best of the Web. It certainly had lots of problems (very similar ones to current Mastodon....) but the balance between being able to find things with a search, stumble across things or go down hyperlink ratholes balanced the best against ads/spyware/assorted nastiness.

     Stumbleupon, del.icio.us, google in their don't-be-evil days were pretty spectacular.

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     Brian Fenton (brianfenton@phpc.social)'s status on Monday, 06-Nov-2023 03:26:36 JST Brian Fenton

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     • Olu

     @oluOnline I really miss when RSS was prominent and well-supported. You could subscribe to sites and their content came to you, generally in a focused/ad-free way too

     Social bookmarking was a thing too... people would share their bookmarks and organize little communities around shared interests/interesting people

     H repeated this.
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     Mage 🏳️‍🌈 🚏 (mage@eldritch.cafe)'s status on Friday, 17-Nov-2023 02:18:47 JST Mage 🏳️‍🌈 🚏

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     • Olu

     @oluOnline I've been in the web for 23 years (!) and my biggest lesson is : almost nothing lasts except Wikimedia projects and what you build yourself.

     Everything for-profit has an expiration date