It's facisnating to see how the #OpenWeb ideology was formed in the late aughts. Technologists and early Internet tech personalities have long believed in open and free information.
That's great for academia, and the accumulation of humanity's knowledge. But when we extend that ideology to personal data we end up with what we have now.
Open Web evangelists criticizing early Facebook for being too private is an incredible heap of irony.
It's facisnating to see how the #OpenWeb ideology was formed in the late aughts. Technologists and early Internet tech personalities have long believed in open and free information.
That's great for academia, and the accumulation of humanity's knowledge. But when we extend that ideology to personal data we end up with what we have now.
Open Web evangelists criticizing early Facebook for being too private is an incredible heap of irony.
It's a mess we do need to compost.
Looking back, no one could've predicted just how good Facebook would become at data mining our personal information.
Would opening Facebook up so that social activity is indexable on Google help prevent the surveillance capitalist system we have today? Surely not.
Knowing what we know now, do we really want our posts, likes, comments, and shares available for anyone to quantify, analyze, use against us etc?
Is that the same as open accessible knowledge on the web? I don't think so.
Anyway. It's late. I'm rambling. End of thread.
Here's a picture of a cup of coffee I made this morning in my favorite mug gifted to me by my niece.
I made the Cuban-style coffee in my moka pot :)
https://fromjason.xyz/p/notebook/the-bliss-of-good-enough-an-ode-to-my-moka-pot/
One more thing- reading these old blogs it's wild to think that #Facebook was once considered a fairly "private" platform, so much that it was a selling point for some.
