Good morning, my Spectrum wifi service got slow this morning, then very slow and then went out a few minutes ago. I have Starlink installed as a backup, and it wasn't working very well last time I tried it, presumably because it didn't have a good view of the sky. I thought this might change in the winter when all the leaves are gone, and I'm happy to report that it did. The service is fast! Of course people will think I'm a fascist because not only do I use Twitter and drive a Tesla, I am also a happy SpaceX customer. 💥#
BTW, yesterday we paused new signons to FeedLand. There were a lot of reasons for this. First, I didn't want a lot of users. I think of FeedLand as a fractional horsepower global feed management system. Not wanting in any way to compete with the huge systems, to create yet another monster like Twitter. I felt that we already had too many users for my liking. At some point the load on the server is going to be a problem, I wanted to stop well before we got to that point. Also, I want to do some development that would be harder with new users coming online. Remember this is not a corporate site. I am the only person working on the software and I'm responsible for keeping the service running at a technical level, and dealing with trolls, spammers and abusers, which thankfully have not been a problem yet, but I know from experience that it's just a matter of time. #
There's this great line in Sleeper where the character played by Woody Allen was asleep for 100 years and when he woke wanted to know how the world was destroyed. They said a guy named Albert Shanker got a nuclear weapon. That's a 1970s NYC joke. If you knew Albert Shanker, you'd get it. If they were remaking the movie now instead of Albert Shanker it'd be Elon Musk and instead of a nuke it'd be Twitter and instead of being science fiction it'd be true. Now that's still an Albert Shanker joke, but soon there will be plenty of Elon Musk jokes. Lots of them. I'm never wrong about things like this btw. ;-)#
- It was a choice between:#
- 1. All the tools of the web, esp linking (which is itself a social network btw).#
- 2. The very limited writing tools of Twitter and Facebook.#
- You chose the latter because that's where the people were.#
- Personally I never stopped blogging, I kept trying to get my blogging to fit in with Twitter, Facebook, Medium, etc. In 2017 I gave that up, and just blogged as a blog. I accepted that most people wouldn't read what I wrote.#
- I realized my writing had become crap because I was trying to get it into all those places. I realized that was too much to give up, that writing was how I grew intellectually, and accepting the limits of the business people at the social networks was killing my brain.#
- Too high a price.#
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