But the engaged clickable web is anyways dead. This post is a static HTML file hosted on IPFS with no back links to my carefully curated blog and media presence. No branding. It's because I've accepted that people's bullshit-radar is sensitive towards overly optimized engagement content. Rather I want my text to be read and those that care will anyways online-search me. It's not my idea btw. The web has reached peak clickability: https://tedgioia.substack.com/p/has-the-internet-reached-pea...
I think covid is when the internet jumped the shark for Joe Average.
You would get banned from twitter, facebook, reddit, instagram etc for saying what was official policy until _yesterday_. The sheer insanity of that policy left the terminally online in charge everywhere and the quality of every website suffered. If I look back to reddit posts which google still brings up more than half the people are banned. These are people who wrote thousand word replies to technical problems and were pillars of the community. The only ones left are the mentally ill unemployed since they are the only ones who have time to keep track of what is allowed there.
HN was headed down the same hole until that hilarious post by PG about heretics that got flagged for 8 hours. I imagine at that point it hit everyone in charge here that the people making the most noise were not their friends.
But the engaged clickable web is anyways dead. This post is a static HTML file hosted on IPFS with no back links to my carefully curated blog and media presence. No branding. It's because I've accepted that people's bullshit-radar is sensitive towards overly optimized engagement content. Rather I want my text to be read and those that care will anyways online-search me. It's not my idea btw. The web has reached peak clickability: https://tedgioia.substack.com/p/has-the-internet-reached-pea...