neonmoon @neonmoon@retro.social
Web, zines, hackers, dead egos. They/them. https://neonmoon.org/
https://m.signalvnoise.com/move-slowly-and-fix-things-e5a560fd928b
I especially like the idea of referring to people who promote anti-user UX as hucksters.
@junglestrike @vinzv @phildini @bob at this point I would even be happy to ignore the "average user" for now, if all the people and organisations who know the importance of free and decentralised systems would finally start using them instead of complaining on Twitter & Co that they are not perfect.
Tim Berners-Lee on the Web: "The system is failing"
<<“I’m still an optimist, but an optimist standing at the top of the hill with a nasty storm blowing in my face, hanging on to a fence,” said the British computer scientist.
“We have to grit our teeth and hang on to the fence and not take it for granted that the web will lead us to wonderful things,” he said.>>
<<“People are being distorted by very finely trained AIs that figure out how to distract them,”>>
You may be pondering, "I, Eric, feel an emotion but don't know how to convey it." Do I have the Web site for you!
Eric Conveys an Emotion brings you all your emotion-conveying needs, from surprised (good) to surprised (bad)! Who can forget "just realized you bought the wrong fabric softener"! And we can all relate to "Shouldn't have eaten a whole bag of Wow! Doritos"!
i don't really understand the desire to cross post from twitter to masto or vice versa. i don't come here to see tweets, i come here to see toots. the medium is the message and imo the medium of mastodon is different enough to that of twitter to constitute a different message
Is it possible that there is no RDF ontology for plants? I must be missing something.
shoutout to all the web developers who hate web development. heyyyy *waves*
The pace at which "the Web is dying!" articles are being published has sped up I'm the past six months, which makes me optimistic that some collective group will launch the Web replacement we want.
(Hopefully we'll recognize it when we see it!)
Hackers (1995) but every scene's been replaced by that one skateboard floppy disk handoff scene
I wrote a small thing, a thing with a hopeful message.
"The Web Endures"
I wish there was a ...
fuck it. I'll make it myself.
Yay it's #weirdWebWednesday!
Today be sure to play through the interactive fiction games based on They Might Be Giant's "Apollo 18" album!
http://pr-if.org/event/apollo-18/
Note that "Fingertips" is split into 20 games, each winnable in exactly one move. Of course.
My favorite is "Everything is Catching on Fire".
I have been having similar thoughts, but I think I came to a different conclusion.
1) People should write software again.
2) Websites should go back to mostly being about publishing information sharing.
3) Desktop software should integrate more network aware functionality.
The internet is more than a web browser, and I miss having a good email program.
@Aerdan @Irick @awilfox Authentic question: do we need alternate browsers to catch market share?
I play the scenario in my head over and over. Maybe we can build very cool alternative browsers, and the web will work the way we use it. Meaning, the sites you visit and read will work, and the ones that don't, fuck them, they signed up for Web 3.bananapants, and we don't have to accept their trade-offs. Ya know?
I've been rocking #lynx a lot lately, and it is pretty fun!
Mastodon is nifty. But on some real, getting with the IndieWeb is the ultimate wave.
Has no one done a decentralized dating service yet? Swiping The Fediverse?
the idea of “programming is practical and will help you get a job!” is reaaaaally getting in the way of “programming is strange and beautiful and will help you understand the world”