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0 pointsPaulHoule4y ago0 comments

No, the traditional internet required that you be literate, be able to write, have an IQ > 45.

Already we saw sites like Medium attract lower quality content than blogs that require a certain amount of intelligence to set up.

Audio and video communication online is something Marshall McLuhan warned you about: take a look at TikTok if you don't believe me.

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legacynl4y ago

Lol you're so full of yourself.

> the traditional internet required that you be literate, be able to write, have an IQ > 45.

No it didn't. The internet required you to know how to setup a server and hosting. If you knew how, you could serve the most illiterate, badly thought out crap ever, and nobody would stop you.

You think that you needed to be litterate, because you've confirmation-biased yourself into thinking that you were 'special'/'gifted' for having read some nginx-manuals and setup your own blog. And now that everybody has access to the thing that made you feel 'special' you act childish and try to degrade that achievement of others.

"yeah you write for your own blog, but did you use MEDIUM while doing it? What a poser! If you're a real writer, like ME, you'd host your own blog in the 90s".

> Already we saw sites like Medium attract lower quality content than blogs that require a certain amount of intelligence to set up.

Who made you the arbiter of quality content? Did you ever self-reflect and realize that it might not be about quality, but rather your personal preference?

Are you too stupid to see that people might not share your views at all? That what they think is quality-content you might think is shit? And that what you think is quality-content others might think is shit?

PaulHouleOP4y ago

Lol.

1. Back in the 90’s it was Apache, not NGINX. 2. Cool kids today make a blog w/ Jamstack and don’t mess w/ NGINX. 3. People who blog on medium seem to be more hung up on getting a domain name than anything else (either $10 a year is not worth it or paying $10 a year means you’ve been ‘canceled’ by big tech or something…)

The ignorance of those people is not so much technical but in the domain of marketing and branding. Like ‘data scientists’ who think they are too good to run unit tests or type ‘git commit’ they think being high status is letting other people do things for you, so in their bizzaro world being on medium makes you look like a somebody and having your own domain makes you a nerd, a tool or something like that.

Thank God people who won’t register a domain name won’t figure out how to make a crypto wallet so they’ll always be looking from the outside in, wishing they had a bored ape of their own.

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