| Thank you for taking your time to reply to my comment. I want to clarify one thing first: I don't have anything special against your platform, it's just that it seems I see at least one article a week about it on HN lastly and I'm wondering why. I'm sure you are well intentionned and you'll do your best to keep the plaftorm as true to the mission you have chosen to take and described in your manifesto, no doubt about it. But having been through a certain number of hype cycles around tech, I tend to become suspicious when I see too much people pushing something.
That's why I understand people complaining about Kagi's omnipresence here, even though I'm totaly on the hype train here. Furthermore, the article looks like a promotion for the platform. It probably isn't, and you don't control what people publish, so it's not your fault.
Yet, it reads like "bearblog is the solution to "Resurrect the Old Web". Which, to me, can't be, since it's a platform like the hundreds that previously came and went, no matter their creator's promise. So, sure, bearblog exists, it offers people a way to publish content in an _old fashioned_ way, and, according to its manifesto, it will stay like this as long as it exists.
Which is nice.
And can be part of a solution, but it's not the solution. I don't think there is, actually. |
We're at the end of communication in this symbolic era. You can see it in politics, climate policy, fiscal policy, trade policy, media, everything is at an end-point or a breaking point.
So lacking an awareness of the end-game for the symbolic, we retreat to an easier, earlier state, which is nostalgic. But its nostalgia for a system already on the way out.