I have no idea how to fix it. I’m hoping you’ll tell me how to fix it. But we should do something to fix it. We can try a hundred different things. You people are designers; treat it as a design problem! How do we change this industry to make it wonderful again? How do we build an Internet we’re not ashamed of?
Great talk of what is going on with technology today.
I think saying we have no idea how to fix it is bullshit. We know what works or what needs to be done. Let’s take an example. Rian writes:
So, sure. Let’s continue to publish on our own sites, and shout loudly about the virtues of doing so. But let’s not make people feel like unwanted newbies when they dream up a different web. We need them as much as they need us.
What we need is way, way, simpler tools for people to self-publish, exist, control and connect from their own web. People suck at computers and it’s OK because computers suck too. So developers, there’s a problem to solve right here.
WHERE ARE THOSE DAMN TOOLS. Developers don’t think about empowering people anymore that was the 90s, when programmers had grown up in the 70s, flower power and shit. Developers today are kind of egoistic greedy dicks, I’m sorry.
Facebook should be subscription based and not ad based. No algo. Users have full control. Mark you’d still be a billionaire and people would love you, isn’t that better?
Twitter should have gone the WordPress way and we all know it (the way they treated their ecosystem that made them what they are? So gross).
To register a domain name and linking a website, editing it, adding stuff to it should be as easy as using mobile apps or linking contacts on a windows phone. Mobile apps are popular because that’s the extent of what people can do with computers. It has nothing to do with mobility, almost.
RSS, torrent technologies, micro transactions, should be flourishing and be all the rage because they are changing the world and the internet, making us stronger. Instead, Snapchat and Pinterest.
Any service that we use everyday or very regularly shouldn’t be ad based, store our activity forever or fuck content providers over yes I’m looking at you, music streaming services.
We know what to do, we know what we should have done. It’s so annoying to witness.