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[–] [email protected] 17 points 5 months ago (6 children)

I can’t get past the og twitter which was everyone blogging minutiae of their life. What they ate for lunch. What street they’re walking down. What they thought of the music on the radio.

Somewhere along the way people tried to make it legit, but also it was people trying to claim firsties for any event worth mentioning.

It’s just a crap platform. Too much bs to wade through to find anything good.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (5 children)

I get the appeal of twitter. I've said this before. You want to know tour dates? When that next book in the series is coming out. When a new game trailer is available? Movie trailer? You want to know about when a vlog creator posts their newest content? Twitter was good for those things. I used to use it for that. Now it's just useless for most things. And I'm back to using RSS feeds, more than half of which don't work properly.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago (2 children)

I've never stopped using web sites for those use cases.

There's something to be said for having full control over your online "home".

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

That is an amazing idea!

We should make a site where people can set up their own internet homepage. Each person can have their own space on the internet! To give the users a sense of ownership let's call it MySpace.

I think my friend Tom will help design the site.

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