The internet is a mosaic of subcultures (notebook #1 ꩜)
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The internet is a mosaic of subcultures (notebook #1 ꩜)
- the idea of what “public space” looks like on the internet... Not as in anyone can see , but as in a place that can be crowded or empty. A place where you can run into people you know or interact with others who are there at the same time.
from strat*scraps_v152
alice smith added
grey areas of the web
The original social network, email, is now into its sixth decade of vigorous life. It ain’t perfect but it is essential, and not in any serious danger.
The single crucial difference between email and all those other networks — maybe the only significant difference — is that nobody owns or controls it. If you have a deployment that can speak the lang
... See morefrom Why Not Bluesky by ongoing by Tim Bray
Daniel Santos added
The internet is no omniscient library, but the parallels between Borges’ story are apparent. The web is a boundless compendium of information and data scattered across billions of pages—content, as we’ve loathed to call it. In this virtual information library, Google may be the closest thing we have to a librarian.
from The Future of Search by Terry Nguyen
- That's the thing with the internet. It is not a singular place: the internet is made up by many internets. Some are connected, and some are not. This makes it hard to talk about the internet because your internet is unlikely to be similar to mine. Even when we visit the same social site, we experience different worlds. Where D sees a subcategory of... See more
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