- cross-posted to:
- longreads@sh.itjust.works
- cross-posted to:
- longreads@sh.itjust.works
The internet you grew up on isn’t dying. A commercial veneer glued on top of it is. A visual essay about the protocols, federations, and quiet machinery underneath everything you actually use.
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“Veneer”
That, Verily, is the second time I View such Verbiage. Though the Verbose extent I remain to Verify, I hope it is of Voluble read, and not the Volume of prose to be of Vain poetic Value.
(Sorry, couldn’t hold it; but will be reading it when I get the time)
Took a peek at the article, and it is bothering me as I’m a fast reader, or at least faster than the article draws text to seem more impactful.
So to those that also read faster, a tip, quickly scroll all the way to the bottom and then back up to load most of the text.
It is a special way to render an article indeed. I tend to lose focus in longer texts so this format was perfect, reading it paragraph per paragraph.
I don’t like the neologistic use of “federated” while describing old protocols with server-to-server communication.
You almost had me until you started trying to sell me something.
@squirrel I’m afraid there is no boring internet
Actually… thanks for bringing this up. Seems to be a bug in PieFed. I’ve reported it to the devs.
@squirrel glad I could be of assistance. I tried another one of your links, “Christine Lemmer-Webber - Building a Humane Social Internet” before my original post, that one worked for me though. (Actually wasn’t quite sure if bug or intentional joke, but remembered someone else sharing that boring internet article recently.)
This might be a classic works-for-me. I have no idea why it doesn’t work for you. If the link I was trying to share didn’t go through, this is it https://www.terrygodier.com/the-boring-internet
