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@KimberlyHirsh @manton @jasonekratz Thanks for the insight. It’s hard to see from here just how big the job is because there’s no easy way to get a sense of how large the firehose is. Thinking a bit more about the sort of discovery I’ve enjoyed in the past, though: one of my favorite parts of the early web were the various “show me a random site” pages out there. I wonder if there’s a room (along with Discover, not as a replacement for it) for a feed that just shows one out of every X posts to all of micro.blog.
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@manton I spent decades in software dev so I know how much easier it is to propose a feature than it is to implement it well! So I’ll just reiterate here that I’m happy with micro.blog and look forward to seeing how it grows from here.
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@manton I wonder if there’s some way to crowdsource discovery in the meantime. Meanwhile I’ll just note that your reply got me to follow @jasonekratz .
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@artkavanagh I’ve looked at the Purism Librem 5 but can’t justify spending the money. So I use a cheap older Android phone and limit what I use on it.
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@MitchW Damnation Alley was first by a few years. I think they both grew out of the late 1960s sense of looming apocalypse. Which should be coming back into style any minute now.
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@rasterweb Of course the billionaires agree with him: they all want to be trillionaires.
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@manton Except that Amazon has prioritized (I think) the theory that everyone should be an author so as to incrementally increase the participation in their overall ecosystem. Convince people that they’ll make money and they’re less likely to leave. (Even though the long tail of people make essentially no money).
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@manton That’s exactly why I dumped my Audible subscription after years - no way to extract human work from the flood of slop, and no pricing differential. Fortunately libro.fm sill exists as an alternative.
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@pawel Not loading in Firefox on Linux Mint:
An error occurred during a connection to orzech.me. SSL received a record that exceeded the maximum permissible length. Error code: SSL_ERROR_RX_RECORD_TOO_LONG
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@dwalbert I just did a 30-mile day hike alone. Though I did have an audio book running some of the time for company. But with open-ear headphones that don’t disturb critters!