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Re:Joining Apple Computer by swyx on Saturday June 07, 2025 @09:47PM (#44213978)
you can only blame capitalism so much for the unpopularity of hypercardlike things vs instagram/facebook/twitter etc

on some level it is just human nature to want to consume than create. just is. its not great but lets not act like people havent tried to make creative new platforms for self expression and software creation and they all kinda failed

Re:Joining Apple Computer by Nevermark on Sunday June 08, 2025 @03:58AM (#44215437)
> is just human nature to want to consume than create

That may be true.

But it doesn't really explain why the tools for simple popular creation are not there. There are a lot of people in the world who would use them, even if its only 1%.

Re:Joining Apple Computer by reaperducer on Sunday June 08, 2025 @07:15PM (#44220094)
They were there, but nobody used them.

For a long while, Apple computers came an entrie creative suite of programs to make your own content and publish it on the Internet via iWeb.

For a variety of reasons, hardly anyone took advantage of it.