[pavel_lishin]

One of the things I love about RSS and its clients is that I can walk away from my computer for a month, and then catch up (or not! I can mark feeds, folders, or the whole thing as read!) on what I've missed, whether it's from someone posting something once an hour, or something once a year, as the author suggests.

But with Spring 83, I leave a board, and may come back to a totally different board, knowing nothing of the context of how it got to where it is now. It's the equivalent of AIM status messages!

That's probably a feature in some people's minds, which is fine, but it's definitely not a feature for me.

[patcon]

I hear you. Though I doubt our minds are made to withstand that indulgence as much as we want to believe.

Creatures like us have mostly evolved to survive in a world of realtime comms. Forgetfulness is evolved. If we remember everything we want to, notice everything we try to, capture everything we wish to, we are profoundly crippled.

We've monkeypatched our brains' protocols with writing systems, in a way that no other creature has found it possible [or perhaps not "beneficial"] to do, but I suspect there are limits to how much we can lean into this mode.

I think at some threshold, it's more beneficial for us to live in a gentle flowing stream than climbing down an ever-towering stack. I suspect we need protocols that resist our hubris toward information.

Yes, we all make our own choices. But it doesn't escape my notice that the minds that tend to build tech products, tend to have a predisposition toward information gathering and hoarding. I wonder what societal distortions there are, due to how these minds build the platforms and choose the defaults in which all our minds are forced to live

[nsriv]

I love this about RSS too, but I think the internet has generally trained us to be afraid of ephemerality and preyed upon FOMO. The desire for ephemerality has led to permanent platforms subsuming the idea of controlled ephemerality, like IG stories and status messages. Plus, it seems like the level of context can be controlled by the creator, like a space for permanent links on the board vs a series of rambles that get wiped away daily. The narrative explanation of the protocol seemed to dive into this a bit more.

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The board could certainly link to a website's archive.