Re:Facebook announces policy changes ahead of 2020 elections
by qwertox on Saturday June 27, 2020 @03:51AM
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I agree, yet I miss platforms like Geocities, where, with no intention of harm, you could create an anonymous site and just write about your hobby.
That's no longer possible nowadays.
The website counter was the like-button of those days.
Re:Facebook announces policy changes ahead of 2020 elections
by jfim on Saturday June 27, 2020 @06:30PM
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There's still Neocities [0], and you can make things that look straight from the 90s [1][2] or upload things that look more modern.
[0] https://neocities.org/ [1] https://gifypet.neocities.org [2] https://neocities.org/browse
Re:Facebook announces policy changes ahead of 2020 elections
by jopsen on Saturday June 27, 2020 @04:42AM
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What is stopping you?
Re:Facebook announces policy changes ahead of 2020 elections
by xwdv on Saturday June 27, 2020 @06:00AM
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Having to choose where to host it, what blog engine to use, write your own static site builder or go with something prebuilt, which analytics solution, what to name the site, how to SEO optimize your content, picking keywords, using keywords, how to create a newsletter, how to moderate comments and filter spam, what CDN to use, how to build a responsive design for mobile, put a GDPR disclaimer, write a privacy policy, how to display tasteful ads, where to display social media sharing icons, which affiliate campaign provider to go with, gzip or br encoding, jpeg or webp images, what url structure to use, what meta tags, how to title a page, test the rendering in different browsers, picking a font, finding a fast font provider, polyfills, minimize JS file size, picking stock images for articles, promoting your blog post on HN, gaming HN to get some upvotes, coming up with things to write about... fuck this.
Re:Facebook announces policy changes ahead of 2020 elections
by iamstupidsimple on Saturday June 27, 2020 @10:18AM
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Such a strawman. Getting Geocities scale traffic is easier than ever - it's just a much lower proportion of total internet usage. Raw HTML still works, just like it did on Geocities.
As for advertising... well, if you're going to start making money then expect to brush against regulations. At the very least, you may interest the taxman.
Information back then was scattered, the tools to look for it (Altavista, Yahoo, Archie, Veronica, etc.) were rather weak in retrospect. Wikipedia didn't exist in the 90s, nor did GitHub, Thingiverse, and so on. A lot of things like online banking, stock brokerages, bill pay, video chatting, online gaming, and so on weren't as good as we have it now. None of that was accessible without being tethered to a phone or Ethernet jack.
What has changed is the arrival of platforms that started optimizing for engagement, impressions, views, clicks, targeting, and eyeballs, because all of that can be monetized.
The people who would be glued to the boob tube now are glued to social media, and instead of getting content fed from Rupert Murdoch and other media barons, it comes from whomever does a better job of paying for ad impressions, gaming social media, and creating clickbait content to get their viewpoint heard.