I made a minimal website using Hugo just for writing blogs so I don’t have to post them in groups as posts. Hope it’s fine here. This is not a promotion. No tracking links either.
I made a minimal website using Hugo just for writing blogs so I don’t have to post them in groups as posts. Hope it’s fine here. This is not a promotion. No tracking links either.
No shit. Why people even started in the first place is crazy to me.
But if you are using them, please stop.
Someone yesterday just tried to get me on Instagram. No thanks.
Here in Spain it was because WhatsApp took over cuz carriers charged for SMS and phone calls. Now there’s a massive captive audience that self-reinforces. Same with Instagram if you’re young or Facebook if you like having your brain melted
I’ve been harping on this since Myspace and no one wanted to listen.
In the MySpace era, I definitely would not have listened. I should’ve but, it wasn’t going to happen.
Because instant messaging died out. Then it seemed like you were nothing if you weren’t sharing the bitchiness of your life. Then tumblr died out. Now we’re at the enshittification of it, with algorithms curating everything with an advertisement every three scrolls and an Ai post every two it’s basically every one wheel scroll is your family and friends then three scrolls down you’re seeing your memes.
It’s shit.
None of those things would have made me interested in starting to use non anonymous services. We learned not to do that years prior to its arrival. Took one look and went hell no.
Maybe, but it was always bad. Always. It was a bad idea from the beginning. No person who thought about it for 5 minutes should have thought it was ever a good idea.
Thats why when Zucks quote called the users dumbfucks for just handing over their data to him, it was no surprise. Thats what the facebook user was from the beginning: a dumbfuck.
I 100% agree, we should’ve stopped at MySpace.