That’s the crux of my question—why isn’t there a modern/beautiful social media platform built on the tried and true BitTorrent protocol? People already know how to torrent (or used to), and with a well-designed client, they wouldn’t even need to know it’s a P2P system.
Great points! Although in a truly decentralized system, users wouldn’t need to seed everything—only the posts or comments they upvote. This would give upvotes more weight, as users would be actively supporting and “hosting” content with their compute resources.
No mutability required. Unpopular posts and comments fade when the OP (seeder) goes offline.
Sorry and fixed! FYI my light mode is on during the day and off at night. I’m not a total monster!
You’re absolutely right, I don’t definitely don’t think that we are there!
Although I do believe that humanity has always trended this way—starting with sitting on rocks, then shaping trees to fit the contours of our physical bodies as chairs. Now, we’re trying to shape abstract knowledge and “thoughts” to fit the contours of our individual minds for similar reasons.
I don’t know about proof but when you spend lots of time on a platform you naturally start to notice patterns.
There was an essence of superficiality that permeated a lot of the content that I consumed on Reddit, even the niche subreddits.
For example, on the movie or video gaming subreddits people would often ask for recommendations and I noticed a lot of the top comments were single word answers. They’d just say the name of the movie or game. There was no anecdote to go along with the recommendation, no analysis, no explanation of what the piece of media meant to them.
This is a single example. But the superficiality is everywhere. Once you see it, it’s very hard to unsee it.
For me, it’s the simple memories of playing Quake 3 Arena on Friday nights after school. Crush soda in my cup. A fresh bagel in my hand. Freedom from the responsibilities of homework until Sunday night. I only had the one game so I’d spend the evening exploring different mods, trying to teach myself how to make levels (maps), and of course just frag noobs online until my eyes hurt. I’d stay up super late and when I’d wake up I literally couldn’t be more excited to do it all over again. It was glorious.
Semi-related anecdote…
During the debates my wife made a joke that Biden is so old he’s not even a Boomer. We then gave each other a look and pulled out our phones to check. Turns out it’s true, he is from the “Silent Generation”.
What I like about it is that it’s trained on lots of different sources (including, but not limited to Google, and Bing search results). It then strips out the ads, SEO blog spam, and other nonsense and tries to return the most relevant info for my query. It is leagues better than pure Google. Also, it uses its own LLM unrelated to OpenAI.
A bit unfortunate that I got downvoted for having an opinion and sharing it.
I know Lemmy likes to hate on AI, but my default search engine is http://perplexity.ai and it’s great
I can’t stand the topics you mentioned either and I make a big effort to filter them out whenever possible! There’s a tool called https://siftrss.com/ which can be the middle man between you and your RSS feeds. It allows you to filter out any articles containing black listed keywords which is super handy.
My biggest frustration about modern RSS feeds is that the articles are often incomplete. Some clients are able to get the full feed anyway but it usually results in broken formatting.
Here are my favorite news sources:
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You could also skip the movies and go straight to No Mans Sky, the video game.
Vanilla Sky! It’s a truly mind bending movie, with an absolutely perfect soundtrack. I’ve probably seen this movie more than any other. I still find personal meaning in it 20+ years after my first watch as a kid when my older brother decided to see it in the theaters and took me along. I was confused but moved by it and I didn’t know why. Love came after the second watch.
Beautiful! I wish I could hear what it sounds like. Is it clicky?
If I was I’d be playing the theme song from 28 Days Later in the picture ☺️. Thank you!
imadethis new way of reporting battery life!
I prefer the aesthetics of the classic iPod OS ☺️
Does it still count as “imadeit” if I made it using a hodge podge of other people’s parts? Haha, I ordered the custom shell from eBay ☺️ but it feels very high quality (not 3D printed)
I used a modern 3000mA lithium ion battery which provides about 60 hours of music playback. That’s about 2 hours per day which is much more than I use!
No need for real-time messaging or extensive message histories—it could be “survival of the fittest ideas.” Popular content stays seeded, while less popular content disappears when the poster goes offline.