Marketing ruins everything.
tunetardis@lemmy.ca 8 months ago
I imagine you’re probably talking more about content, but you’ve uncovered a pet peeve of mine having more to do with the structure of web pages.
The original vision of html was to have this beautiful format that flows text and graphics elegantly over whatever space you give it. I remember thinking this is great! One day we will have pocket-sized displays and the web is already future-proofed to work seamlessly in that world.
Then fast-forward to smart phones. By now, web pages were so rigidly formatted that they had to design special mobile versions of every site.
knobbysideup@sh.itjust.works 8 months ago
DandomRude@lemmy.world 8 months ago
I think that’s too generalized. Marketing finances the Internet just as it has always financed print media (including the good, even inversitgative journalism).
SexyVetra@lemmy.world 8 months ago
I think that’s too generalized. Print and written media existed for literally thousands of years before marketing finance.
Touch some grass.
DandomRude@lemmy.world 8 months ago
I’m talking about modern print media of course, cmon. Also Printing does not date back tousands of years - it was invented (in the west) by gutenberg in 15th century. What are you saying?
onion_dude@lemmy.world 8 months ago
What does touch some grass mean?
Also, what kind of print and media existed for thousands of years? I thought it was just religious scrolls and cave paintings
Neato@ttrpg.network 8 months ago
Print and written media existed for literally thousands of years
Uh, no? If by media you mean anything that could remotely considered for the masses then absolutely not. The printing press was so revolutionary because it allowed making multiple copies of written documents without doing them each manually. Reading and writing was so expensive and rare a hobby because the written word was expensive; why would you need to read more than the basic signs if chalk boards were your limit of writing?
“News” before then was word of mouth. Town criers and the like.
Katana314@lemmy.world 8 months ago
I would definitely prefer a world in which sources of content are often paid-only instead of ad-supported, but the main thing needed for such a world is a higher minimum wage so more people have disposable income to distribute to authors they appreciate.
This would mean that if someone posts a rage-bait article like “Is Former President OBAMA Stealing Opium Money OUT OF YOUR POCKET?” then maybe people will click it, but the author won’t gain anything out of it.
realitista@lemm.ee 8 months ago
The only way this would work is if you paid for a subscription to many news sources a la Netflix. No one will buy subscriptions to each individual author or publication. But of course Netflix now has ads too, so greed really has no bounds, especially once they’ve got you roped in.
Caligvla@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 months ago
Yeah how about no? Knowledge should be free, I’m not gonna pay 5c every time I want to open Youtube or some shit. In a utopia you’d pay some small government tax that’d go towards keeping the web ad and paywall free, so the people get happy and the greedy corporate rats get their dirty money.
originalucifer@moist.catsweat.com 8 months ago
well, at its heart, the 'www' was supposed to be a bunch of documents linked to each other contextually.
you ever try and use the web without images? genX remembers.
DandomRude@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Yes, I’m mainly concerned with the content. HTML certainly gives you all the possibilities, but it has ultimately led to boring but easy-to-use and correspondingly restictive UIs. I think anyone who wants to reach a lot of people today will do so via social media (original Myspace unfortunately didn’t work out, tho).
notasandwich1948@sh.itjust.works 8 months ago
actually made my own site sandwich.sh you can do quite a lot with just html, I just don’t know what. the archive section is html generated with a bash script. sending it here because I think it’s cool
Aqarius@lemmy.world 8 months ago
motherfuckingwebsite.com
Hexagon@feddit.it 8 months ago
bettermotherfuckingwebsite.com
canihasaccount@lemmy.world 8 months ago
perfectmotherfuckingwebsite.com
Mango@lemmy.world 8 months ago
This one is actually good. The second one kinda sucks IMO.
SpaceCadet@feddit.nl 8 months ago
For a laugh, view the page source and scroll down.