12-25-2018, 11:00 PM
I absolutely do not prefer to have ANY of those fields.
The ICQ, AIM, Skype, whatever... it's all outdated nonsense.
We want to move away from the whole 'social media ghetto' paradigm entirely.
The way I see it, the sites that will use this community software are probably going to be niche communities...
Probably will be founded around specific topics.
That's why I'm supportive of the idea of even making the software...
Coming from the "everyone should have their own website" camp, I see it as a way to take the power away from social media and disperse it among the users again.
Instead of having a Facebook page about goldfish, you'll have an entire community website about goldfish.
And there will be no need to provide linking out to other 'social' sites because frankly, we want to get the hell away from the 'all tied together' paradigm. If I want to use the goldfish community as Goldie Goldfisherton, I'm not gonna be linking to my Facebook, and I'm not gonna be keen on having everyone from the goldfish community follow me over to the BDSM community because I linked my stupid Pinterest on there or something.
We have to carefully select the fields that are available to users because we're trying to reshape the way people THINK ABOUT the use of the internet and their own identities.
One of the most unbelievable things about Facebook to me was that they convinced everyone to use their REAL NAMES. Fucking unbelievable. Inconceivable. Before that, NO ONE DID IT. Unless they were famous or something. Everyone's profile names were made up shit...
And they still should be. I don't support a platform that does it any other way. People should stop being encouraged to use real details, and link all their BS together.
The ICQ, AIM, Skype, whatever... it's all outdated nonsense.
We want to move away from the whole 'social media ghetto' paradigm entirely.
The way I see it, the sites that will use this community software are probably going to be niche communities...
Probably will be founded around specific topics.
That's why I'm supportive of the idea of even making the software...
Coming from the "everyone should have their own website" camp, I see it as a way to take the power away from social media and disperse it among the users again.
Instead of having a Facebook page about goldfish, you'll have an entire community website about goldfish.
And there will be no need to provide linking out to other 'social' sites because frankly, we want to get the hell away from the 'all tied together' paradigm. If I want to use the goldfish community as Goldie Goldfisherton, I'm not gonna be linking to my Facebook, and I'm not gonna be keen on having everyone from the goldfish community follow me over to the BDSM community because I linked my stupid Pinterest on there or something.
We have to carefully select the fields that are available to users because we're trying to reshape the way people THINK ABOUT the use of the internet and their own identities.
One of the most unbelievable things about Facebook to me was that they convinced everyone to use their REAL NAMES. Fucking unbelievable. Inconceivable. Before that, NO ONE DID IT. Unless they were famous or something. Everyone's profile names were made up shit...
And they still should be. I don't support a platform that does it any other way. People should stop being encouraged to use real details, and link all their BS together.
