How is it dead tech if everything still works, apps are still being made and websites still publish feeds? Literally every Substack and such has an rss it’s so easy that most websites have it without knowing and don’t link it but it works anyway

Advertising RSS feeds is also a good way to reach back and replace substack. People have forgotten them but they still work just as much as before. I’ve dug up Reeder that is still kicking after all these years.

This was a great read can’t wait for the next part. I only know about some of the later parts with WWW. The internet is baked with so many amazing ideas I’m glad it came to be from people with humanity’s good at heart or that at least wanted to protect it from the worst elements and share knowledge.

But if you downvote every post the impact is moot no? Nobody will ever tell the difference I’m not even sure Reddit won’t smooth out your votes since it’s not even a real number. There’s hundreds of apple subreddit if you hate them you gratify them more by nurturing your anger and spending your priceless time downvoting dumb posts on a dying website when you could do something great instead that isn’t thinking about stupid brand. Make your anger into something pretty

I feel like that depends on the frontend you use which is one of the coolest parts, using Photon https://phtn.app/ I find the UX actually better than Reddit’s

I agree and that’s sad but that’s also how I’ve seen people use AI, as a search engine, as Wikipedia, as a news anchor. And in any of these three situations I feel these kind of “both sides” strictly surface facts answers do more harm than good. Maybe ChatGPT is more subtle but it breaks my heart seeing people running to DeepSeek when the vision of the world it explains to you is so obviously excised from so many realities. Some people need some morals and actual “human” answers hammered into them because they lack the empathy to do so themselves unfortunately.

I mean that’s the kind of answer DeepSeek gives you if you ask it about Uyghurs. “Some say it’s a genocide but they don’t so guess we’ll never know ¯_(ツ)_/¯”, it acts as if there’s a complete 50/50 split on the issue which is not the case.

That was my immediate thought, it’s space exploration, it’s meant to cost more than is reasonable or affordable, because monetary rationale has never been a factor in it. Even if it did pay out in the long run with inventions and discoveries in the past, it’s never going to make budget sense because exploration and pushing our specie’s boundaries shouldn’t be. It’s a miracle what space agencies are/were able to accomplish with super strict budgets in the past, but in the end there’s only so much you can do by cutting corners and letting the private sector fill the gaps

No mention of alternatives being in the spotlight that’s a bit too bad

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