Notices by Mr. Encyclopedia (mrencyclopedia@retro.pizza)

How it feels to have executive dysfunction

Holy shit https://www.thewrap.com/steven-universe-lars-of-the-stars-prime-video-annecy/

Consumer networking devices come in two varieties: Altar to a Dark God and Aromatherapy Machine.

There is a picture of Ranma coming out of an egg wearing a trans colors wedding dress.

Me after writing one (1) regular expression

Some folks find it confusing that there's a survival game called Rust and a programming language called Rust, but there's an easy way to remember.

If you get into Rust and there's a bunch of naked people running around killing each other with rocks, that's the programming language.

The most annoying thing about Breath of the Wild and open world games like it is you can't continue to explore the world after you beat the game.

Let me talk to NPCs who are like "oh, it's over?" Let me clean out monster bases that will never respawn now that the threat is gone. Let me enjoy the peace that all true warriors strive for!

Game devs got laid off but at least they still have a helping hand

Unsurprising that police tip rewards are in fact a scam that require jumping through all manner of hoops to collect. All the more reason to not snitch.

https://www.unilad.com/news/us-news/luigi-mangione-ceo-shooting-mcdonalds-worker-reward-333982-20241210

@thomasfuchs What's it called when you just edit prod files on the fly because it's just your tiny personal site and you're too out of touch and disorganized to operate any kind of web dev workflow.

@erincandescent @lori A site that definitely is in no danger of not persisting long-term.

@heatdeath The internet used to be something you had to sit down in one place to use and you could get up and walk away from the internet whenever you wanted.

But what content could possibly be the delight of so many very real people?

looks good to me

Wake up babe new genders just dropped

But the underlying problem still remains: The Internet is no longer a place for people to share themselves. Instead it's gradually becoming something to passively enjoy as algorithms feed you content to keep you engaged. Where that content comes from and who makes it is becoming less and less important, because there's no direct line from content creation to corporate profits.

Recently a document came out showing that Automattic, the company that currently owns Tumblr, failed to meet their expectations for revitalizing the site. I could point out how I think their strategy was flawed, but there's an underlying problem that I think is more interesting.

Tumblr launched in 2007, during the blog boom. Folks believed the thing you did online was write and talk about yourself. It doesn't have to be interesting, or insightful, it could just be a little diary about your life that others could see if they wanted to.

This is why in 2006 when Twitter launched, people were amused by it. What am I supposed to do with 140 characters? Talk about my lunch?

Eventually the answer became clear: No, you don't tweet about your lunch. You don't talk about your boring day. You shut up and consume the content of other people who are more interesting than you. It became clear that only a tiny fraction of people produce the majority of content on social media, and the rest are there to watch.

Sites like Instagram and TikTok are successful because they focus on this by making sure the watchers always have an endless stream of content to consume.

This is not how Tumblr was conceived, but it is what their attempts to revitalize it focused on. They tried to make Tumblr a place for people to come consume content, but that's not how Tumblr has ever worked. How do most people see Tumblr? Screenshots shared on other social media sites. Tumblr is for the weirdos who want to make things and collaborate. The quintessential Tumblr post is a witty addition to someone else.