Something about LCD Soundsystem inspires me to delete things.
@vernepator_cur I was also trying something without ego--so much of social media has become ego-centric. (This is why there are no personal pictures or real-names involved.)
At the end of the experiment I'll be moving back into some other kind of systems development, because it has been much more entertaining than trying to beat on the social-media drum. I had forgotten how empty it can feel after reacting and responding to social-media for 1-2 hours. All that effort... for? Nothing.
If you tell someone HEY GET FREE STUFF HERE at http://guide42.xyz/ if you take a survey and retweet something X times, you'll bring out perhaps would could be considered the mentally-ill of the Internet.
@vernepator_cur That's pretty much what's happening. You build something nice and...
nothing.
Either you just spam channels with self-promotion with automated systems to get noticed (which is essentially... Twitter) or you pretend to be-like-us and waste a lot of time pretending.
When everyone is saturated with their perfect social media bubble they're just not going to explore anything.
@vernepator_cur Testing audience growth through simple engagement via social media.
People don't leave social media to look at websites--they just stick to the carousel of social media. The most active users are mostly those who have automated and queued content to beacon themselves to the world. The most popular social media posts are also mostly very low signal: between ideological or gender-identity most users are only engaging their own echo-chambers in shared outrage.
Cost of the experiment: time and about $10.
This essentially means that user-engagement on the web is so long-tailed and siloed that you can't bootstrap anything without advertising, pornography or criminal-supporting activity such as piracy, hacking or scams.
nb. The Guide42 experiment's plug is going to get pulled on May 8th.
Grr... when websites are down I grit my teeth and wish #IPFS tooling was better.
Went ahead and bumped up the font size to 20px for the site. "How to Kill Your Dog with Jerky" perhaps now more readable than ever.
@noelle http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/bepis
Why people keep trying to circumvent it, no idea.
Mercury retrograde?!
OH NOOOOES
You'd better send me your money for safe keeping. Yeah... https://octodon.social/media/AB30f2GVKQyQzVIpNy8
In January of 1976 I was on the air (noon hour?) at KBOA in Kennett, MO, when the police scanner in the studio went nuts. Someone (dispatcher? patrolman?) was yelling that someone had robbed the bank and “took off in an airplane!” I grabbed a cassette recorder and dashed out of the station.
Continued at: http://www.smays.com/2017/05/kennetts-flying-bank-robber/
Today's cutting: Unfollowing services and automated news feeds.
The quality of content on the social networks has really taken a downturn. I'm including Reddit, G+, Twitter and Mastadon in this.
Perhaps this is the new dark age?
There is more compelling content on the 4chan/8chan's it seems because of the implicit anonymity... once you cut through the shitposting.
@winniehell I'll go back through their blog posts and rewatch the videos.
@Rushyo What if its sharing and copying a bloomfilter for a whitelist or blacklist?
