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Re:One man, eight years, nearly 20k cat videos, and not a si... by madaxe_again on Sunday July 28, 2019 @12:02PM (#20548182)
No, now people post things for Internet Points - likes and follows, rather than for the joy of sharing - and it shows in the kind of content that is popular. Some folks have optimised the hell out of their Skinner box solutions.
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Re:One man, eight years, nearly 20k cat videos, and not a si... by qznc on Sunday July 28, 2019 @12:11PM (#20548218)
I believe there are still plenty of them. We just don't see them because the point-hunter swamp us.

This suggests a new kind of search filter: Exclude anything which advertises multiple social media accounts.

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Re:One man, eight years, nearly 20k cat videos, and not a si... by cameronbrown on Sunday July 28, 2019 @12:37PM (#20548393)
There is a joy in sharing, but is it really sharing if we're shouting into the void? People want to be part of a community, even if it's just a tiny one. We need that part of the web back.
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Re:One man, eight years, nearly 20k cat videos, and not a si... by rikroots on Sunday July 28, 2019 @03:54PM (#20549491)
Most of my personal websites shout into the void. Their content is so niche (poems, conlangs, web coding experiments, etc) that I would be genuinely surprised if any of them suddenly got popular.

I keep on doing my personal sites because I love creating stuff, and I love coding up quirky sites to display my mad work to those rare whoevers out there who share my niche interests and/or stumble across them by accident.

Building quirky websites is also a good way for me to relax because the sort of sites I get to work on professionally - almost always driven by this or that CMS or framework ... they don't inspire me anymore: samey samey samey stuff with just a tiny odd fun effect here'n'there.

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Re:One man, eight years, nearly 20k cat videos, and not a si... by ryacko on Sunday July 28, 2019 @02:14PM (#20548959)
I think that has changed to the off topic or memes channel of a Discord server.
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Re:One man, eight years, nearly 20k cat videos, and not a si... by cameronbrown on Monday July 29, 2019 @11:48AM (#20555811)
When I mean the web, I really mean the open web. Not Discord. Maybe I'm just nostalgic for how it used to be.
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