re: replace or fix web? (politics)
@kara_dreamer @Alyx imho there's enough worthwhile stuff in this shithole that I don't want to give up on it yet
most of my friends I met via communities formed around websites, frex
there's a lot of learning I wouldn't have had without it
re: replace or fix web? (politics)
@packbat @kara_dreamer@plural.cafe *sighs* yeah, I can't deny that, although I feel like web learning is very much a poisoned pill. sure there's info to be found but you practically have to teach yourself to be a media expert just to find the shit you can actually _trust_. 95% of the web is ad copy, basically
re: replace or fix web? (politics)
@packbat @kara_dreamer@plural.cafe eh, you're not wrong, but the stuff that people _do_ put effort into curating all tends to be in fields I don't care about ;=3
the computer-geek bias is infuriating sometimes
re: replace or fix web? (politics)
@Alyx @kara_dreamer I'm inclined to suspect that it's not so much people not existing as people being impossible to find
pre-SEO, search engines would find you the enthusiasts who are interested in what you're interested in, but that doesn't happen any more
so it's luck into a connection or luck into the right search terms or ... well, luck, it's just luck
if I were trying to change the web, I'd be trying to make us luckier - trying to get more people with "here are a bunch of links about plurality!" and "here are a bunch of links about numismatics!" and "here are a bunch of links about tea!" or whatever, so the links happen by more people's reach...
re: replace or fix web? (politics)
@Alyx @kara_dreamer depends on how you find it, I think
I mean, yes, if you're doing searches and stuff, then you are /going/ to have ad copy thrown at you, that's just the hellscape we live in, and you just try to find trustworthy ad copy or dig deep and hope you get lucky
but links created by people tend to be better
for example, I never found a webcomic via a search that I can remember, ever - if I'm searching for a webcomic, it's because someone told me the title
I found webcomics because the Grand List of Console Roleplaying Game Cliches was hosted by someone who drew some webcomics, and that someone had links to other webcomics, and those others had some combination of links, guest strips (for theirs or someone else's), and fanart (likewise) that connected to other webcomics, and /that/ gets you a lot of interesting stuff that's filtered genuinely (mostly)
some crap, too, but as long as the websites aren't going full SEO marketing? it's a web of people and not ad copy