I think it’s really sad pirate bay (thanks in part to Sunde) became known as the “we kinda just stopped working on it” product rather than you know, the legally dubious raids And seriously it’s the right idea that they had, a distributed tracker system

It’s so weird to think of the internet as new and very old at the same time I guess I just want my flash games back

“Universe” in nostr reminds me of diaspora/friendica It’s useful to have to find new people but still feels a little weird

(More on Sarah Wynn’s book) you have the internet where the protocols were devised by academic types (yeah some military involvement too) and then here’s Zuckerberg being like yeah censorship on china is cool (anything to let us operate there) and his being accused of theft constantly (winklevoss twins) and his views on radical unprivacy and “that” quote when he was at Harvard (yeah so if you ever need info on people just ask, people just submitted it, they “trust me”, dumb fucks”)

What are sats

I’m only half done Sarah Wynn’s book but holy shit lmao

It’s colored by the political spectrum but it’s fucking terrifying what YouTube (nominally the world’s leading video repository) does to videos it doesn’t like (even censoring the comments in real time). “Misinformation/community standards violations”. Seen during Covid but even well outside that. Who decides (especially when it turns out not to be misinformation at all?)? Is there any punishment for tech companies that decide to do this?

Whoever decided to auto subscribe you to posts that have nothing to do with your friends (the product is unusable) on Facebook shouldn’t be allowed to work in the industry again Why is Zuckerberg such a fucking ghoul I have a great business model idea have social media sites be chronological posts by friends (or pages) you follow No ridiculous engagement metrics

It would’ve been so easy to blame the ills of google on seo I don’t know their workings in detail but they’ve been reasonably corrupt and then that transformed into purely ideological censorship And arguably they never had a good reason to be so industry friendly with copyright on YouTube Still probably more honest on aggregate than facebook

I don’t really get relays, if I’m on the right ones, how much I’m missing posts or how much I show up in other feeds

I only sorta recently discovered that you can react with more than just the rock hand signal Would’ve liked to know that before and respond with proper emojis