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Guess I’m the only old-school ThrottleMail user who used to follow The Dopamine Fiend on Xanga.
Where do you find cool blogs? I run a blog myself, and have come across a few cool ones, but is there a place where people promote their blogs and where I can find blogs I might like?
Not exactly pure blogs, but random web 1.0 sites. There’s some real gems in there.
Back when the internet was just a small collection of weirdos sharing their passions and interests with eachother, without advertising, without SEO (Hell, Search engines didnt even exist during a lot of those early days…), Without bullshit.
It’s a better place in most respects.
The first page that came up was somebody’s photography blog, with the most recent posts being 2021. The second was called AJ’s Ferret GIF Archive
AJ’s Ferret GIF Archive
Oh hell yes!
it’s delightful
Blogs never begged for dopamine
The little counter I put on my page certainly did! Got so excited when it reached 100, even though it was mostly me.
But you never made an onlyfans to channel more traffic and then eventually get caught up in a cartel and get owned and sold by a pimp even though on paper it looked as if you were making your own choices.
I still is if you avoid the dumbassery of social media.
Forums. Good old days.
Haven’t posted anything in ages, but I still semi-frequently check up on SomethingAwful. I keep it as my browser home page. It is alive and well.
I miss USENET. I mean, I know it’s still there, but last I checked it was 99% pirated media and porn.
Well I’m sold.
Is see no problem there.
The internet didn’t want you. You used the internet at your own risk. You were the outsider there, and I miss that. Anything friendly was still trying to figure out how to sell things to you on the internet.
I miss forums. Reddit and discord and gb ruined it.
I miss vBulletin boards.
Also, you didn’t need to have a mobile phone just to sign up on a site.
I still use my feed reader ever day.
Blogs never begged for dopamine
My livejournal certainly did.
Pretty sure podcasts “tracked" you RSS usage since there’s an entire analytics industry around podcasts driven through RSS but you agree with the sentiment.
It was just the first taste of a sweet poison.
RSS still works pretty well.
As does everything else in the list. It’s just that almost no one uses it, because people don’t mind the not owning in exchange of the content.
It’s just that almost no one uses it, because
peopleeternal September phone users don’t mind the not owning in exchange of the content.What are eternal September phone users?
No one uses emails?
Mate, the world runs on email.
Mate, the world runs on
emailExcel spreadsheets.There, FTFY.
Maybe for work, and even that is being overtaken in volume by slack, teams and others. Email is for inter-company communication mostly. The volume of imessage, Snapchat, WhatsApp, signal, reddit and Co dwarves email.
The old internet died when we started gamifying human interaction.
Get rid of up/down votes. Get rid of reputation points. Get rid of Emojis. Get rid of all that shit. That shit has lead to dopamine overload, and the extremism in human interaction both on and offline… cause people don’t just talk to each other anymore. Humans, on the whole, just regurgitate ideas and comments back and forth that previously got high marks, thus getting them high marks. People tend to be afraid to speak unpopular but necessary truths because they are scared of their magic fairy points being reduced by an onslaught of downvotes/dislikes/whatevers, Or god forbid something you said be misconstrued and a whole hate train pile on you because you have 30 downvotes so obviously you are wrong and evil and bad, thus resulting in interaction being skewed ever further towards more and more extremes in content because of the incessant need to fish for that next hit of the gamified reward systems.
Its toxic as fuck.
Human interaction shouldnt be gamified. It should just…exist.
Have an… Errr… Upvote.
You’re right, it also highly goes against a lot of small groups, neurodivergent with different understanding etc.
It’s literally out of control with no corrective.
But yay internet points.
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Voting is great though. It helps sort wheat from chaff.
… Is what i would like to say, but maybe that only works in smaller communities. I know a YouTuber who is currently getting baselessly harassed by popular assholes and she probably has an insane number of dislikes.
Voting is great though. It helps sort wheat from chaff.
Except it doesnt.
It just reinforces blind group think, no thought or reason. Upvotes don’t make people more right, downvotes don’t make people more wrong. Its just thoughtless highschool cliquey shit, that was intentionally created to manipulate users into conflict to provoke more engagement… Theres a reason this upvote/downvote shit started on ad driven social media… Only you get to do it all hidden behind the anonymity of a button.
it’s not for right and wrong. just a different perspective from sorting by new. unless someone has a better idea. still have to keep a finger on the block button, not just for the terrible and awful stuff, but all that you don’t care about. No omniscient god swooping in to curate the content fairly and truely, and AI is not that.
emojis are the problem? 🥺🥺🥺😭
