Re:Tell HN: Twitter is growing increasingly unusable without...
by exikyut on Sunday January 30, 2022 @02:20PM
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> "We hope to become an internet-scale Library of Alexandria, a place where hundreds of millions of people go to learn about anything and share everything they know."
> be me
> be in Library of Alexandria
> row upon row of books as far as the eye can see
> any topic, any subject, all the collected information in the world available just because it's humanly possible to enable that
> you can practically see the titles on the book spines
> one of them looks familiar... could it be...?
> take a single step forward
> hologram stutters and flickers out
> "Phis service requires authorisation to perpetually access your Realtime User Feed in order to continue. Process authorisation?"
> (you later learn the book title that looked familiar was algorithmically constructed by a model that keyed off of the Realtime User Feeds of your public friends list.)
> be me
> be in Library of Alexandria
> row upon row of books as far as the eye can see
> any topic, any subject, all the collected information in the world available just because it's humanly possible to enable that
> you can practically see the titles on the book spines
> one of them looks familiar... could it be...?
> take a single step forward
> hologram stutters and flickers out
> "Phis service requires authorisation to perpetually access your Realtime User Feed in order to continue. Process authorisation?"
> (you later learn the book title that looked familiar was algorithmically constructed by a model that keyed off of the Realtime User Feeds of your public friends list.)