SleepilyLimping

Everyone misses Rdio.

>Also is there some astroturfing from 404media going on? This is the third link I’ve seen from them today on HN and I’ve never heard of them

They're a relatively new tech site that are very aware of the value of astroturfing sites like HN and Reddit, so they're obviously doing it. They got a congratulatory "great work going indie" topic when they launched here because a lot of their staff worked on bigger sites, but I've been seeing more "Wow this site is actually terrible, exaggerating crap" comments than anything positive.

This article could've been written without the porn angle, but that's going to be the sensational headline.

I've regularly thought "what's the point of creating, taking photographs or putting effort into [artistic endeavour] if it means that it's just going to be stolen and reposted on Instagram, Reddit, TikTok ad nauseum?"

Obviously there ARE points to doing so, but it feels ultra-shitty that you're consigning yourself to having your work stolen if you're good enough.

This was kind of the theory of using Brave Browser to earn BAT through ads, and then set up an "auto-contribute" list that took your earned BAT and distributed a % that you set to each person. The adoption didn't exactly happen, especially with Brave's weirdness lately.

I feel like these conversations condense down to "the death of authenticity... if you want to make money/get mainstream."

There's plenty of people doing it for free, but there's a melancholy from people who saw the myth of "being yourself and getting paid well for it" dissolve.

Algorithm priority, potential of earning money, Tweetdeck, 2FA, other features.

I think this gets exacerbated with the "we're a family!" culture of employee in-groups. Feeling like a company is your home amplifies the disappointment and feeling of betrayal when the CEO decides to sell.

>Seems like a common theme: people build a community around something, it becomes something really cool, and then a bunch of businesspeople insert themselves and liquidate the trust that’s been built

So do the people who let the business people in just get to dodge the blame? "Oh well, we can't expect anyone to have principles in the face of so much money, so we shouldn't hold anyone to a standard?"

I think that journalists (or well, "company-owned content teams") are very quick to overestimate the spirituality and necessity of their work.

They might think that their work is necessary and invaluable, but it doesn't mean that the company or their users will. Like you're saying, I have a hard time caring about Bandcamp losing full-time writers when they weren't the main attraction at all.

I'd definitely recommend the Patlabor TV show if "slice of life, police procedural with mechs" is something that feels attractive to you.

I don't have a family, but self-hosting Actual Budget via Docker helped me provide a budget app for my friends who I converted to YNAB4, and who I didn't want to point to subscribing to "New YNAB" which is less useful.

I like being able to just host things on my Synology NAS, set up usernames for people, and go "here's a reverse proxy'd URL, go nuts." While it makes me responsible for their data in a way, it feels like I'm helping.

I've seen "Post hog" too many times in less savoury situations to not laugh at the name.

As much as I am thankful for the site for a lot of things, it fostered my "there will always be new content on every refresh" problem, which has stolen so much productivity from me.

I don't mean this in the "haha isn't it cute I spend so much time on Reddit" way, I mean this in the "I have not chased as many goals or passions as I could've because I was numbing myself with easily-available, low-effort content" way.

Big fan of scrcpy from a consumer usage perspective because I can access mobile-first apps (like Hinge, which doesn't have webchat) while still being able to use my keyboard and mouse to input.

>Again, I just don’t get why it makes folks so mad?

The people who are mad are the type of people who were used to having the illusion of influence, or thought they had the social currency to do/get what they wanted with Twitter.

They've lost that perceived control, and are suddenly anxious that they're addicted to a service they cannot influence or use for social power. They get happy for being able to drill in Musk's failure. To them, Musk is a convenient "rich" that they can finally apply "eat the rich" to.

If the definition constantly changes, no one gains the confidence to challenge the people enforcing the definition; they can change it at will to suit their needs, and revel in being hypocritical because they know there's no consequences to it. The demoralization takes hold that the system cannot be questioned or fought against, and any resistance fails.

I hate posts like this.

"You can be a successful professional without spending time on social media. See, look at [those people who've already made their audiences and can self-sustain, and then can afford to longer use social media, or those who made their audience before Facebook and Google completely gutted anything related to content on the web], they can do it! You just need to try harder!"

Spare me.

I love how this one comment thread and its replies highlights the importance of being a good visual communicator. One bad image, one bunch of confusion.

I think they might be arguing for like, the death of a blog as a personal branding center. Site generators (or even like, better-formatted Pastebin alternatives like Rentry) emphasize "publishing for the utility" instead of it having to be attached to a personal brand, community, etc etc.

I enjoy that there's just this demoralization of "yeah, I'm not surprised, and it's going to make me sadder to think about how little consequences are going to come of it."

>I think Gamefaqs is a relic of its time and today doesn't have a lot of relevance for a large portion of today's popular games.

Part of this is because there's monetary incentives to produce walkthroughs (SEO farms, or even just random peoples' YouTube channels). The altruism of writing a .txt guide is gone.

Brave Browser's BAT infrastructure is good for this; even if you don't want to manually tip people, you can set up auto-contribute amounts that deduct from the amount of BAT you earn from seeing ads monthly.

I think the habit of doing so (manually or automatically) sadly isn't there yet, because most conversations I see about Brave/BAT are "how much money can this make ME by earning BAT."

Trying to search Discord for anything is so bad, and it's hurting communities because they're centralizing their knowledge there. Things that used to be on forums for things like fighting games are now buried on Discord, indexed terribly, and are a pain to find.

No one wants to self-host, and normies especially don't want to learn or care about self-hosting. Discord does what it does, normies like it, and people make bots and utilities for Discord because people use it. It's a network effect.

You must fandom everything you can.

> If there are teams that need fat trimmed it’s HR, PM, and management.

They've done a good job of setting up eternal rent-seeking establishments; gonna be impossible to get rid of them now.

It depends; the gatekeepers aren't just cultural. If someone gets you thrown off platforms and payment processors that you need in order to establish your independence and run a business, you get cancelled that way.

Only the already-big can become immune to this. If you're no one, small, or medium, you suddenly lose all ability to escape a network of other "problematics", so it becomes your only audience and limits your growth.

I think it's totally possible today, because if you take away peoples' access to payment processors (Paypal, Venmo, Stripe, Mastercard, Visa) and platforms to grow (Instagram, Patreon, Kickstarter, etc) you keep them from getting to a point of gaining legacy, tenure, etc. Crumb can survive as self-employed because he has a name and value that supercedes canceling attempts.

An artist or creator that doesn't have that already is just as vulnerable because they have no weight to throw around. Independence or being underground doesn't matter when you need the same infrastructure as everyone else to survive.

I refuse to donate to the Archive since the unpersoning of KiwiFarms.

Glad it's not just me. Noticed this issue myself.

Have been enjoying ProtonMail.