Readit NewsSo it’s become an embarrassment within the last 2 years. Yeah, this is what I’m talking about.
It's just that it is harder to follow the people and organisations/parties I want now because there's other crap in between that I didn't ask for. Same thing that facebook did decades ago but instagram held off on for much longer.
It is a big slippery slope aimed at destroying anonimity on the internet. Even if first attempts are privacy-preserving, it could still break the use of double accounts for example, something which I also use widely.
Other things I do are watching content, especially VR180. Porn is also a really big added value point, I know some people have moral issues with that but I don't. It is really like you are in the scene.
I also just like to sit and relax in virtual spaces. It's something I've been doing since the pandemic, when we were all locked in our homes for months on end.
- Proven effective after 14 years of heavy use
- Celebrated by user
- Zero dependencies
- Maximally portable
- Outage-proof
- Compatible with all backup systems and most version control systems
Have you considered that stuff like this is already "more productive" for fluent users than almost any alternative could be?
Somewhere along the line, product people started to mistake following design trends and adding complexity for productivity, forgetting that delivering the right combination of fluency, stability, simiplicity are often the real road to maximizing it.
There is also this article today: https://jon.recoil.org/blog/2025/12/an-svg-is-all-you-need.h... about how great good ol' svg is. And then every recurring article about using RSS instead of all the other siloed products.
textfiles, makefiles, perl, php, rss, text based email, news groups, irc, icq, vim/emacs, sed, awk; all better than the crap they have spawned that is supposed to be "better".
Out of curiosity, what technology in the past 5 years do you use that you actually find better than something from 20 years ago?
- Obsidian notes with self hosted livesync
- VR <3
- 3D Printing
Probably a lot more that i can't think of right now. What I hate it cloud subscription services though