> In the same sense, Facebook is very much a media sharing platform, rather than a social platform to connect with people.
Agreed. A couple years ago, I set my parents, wife’s parents, and a few others up with Raspberry Pis
I manage their setups with Ansible
They have syncthing and we can put photos on our local Pi using SMB apps on our phones
We can browse to them and view our latest adventures through a minimal HTML/CSS/JS viewer I borrowed from github
These services are a joke. Building huge data centers doesn’t serve users. It services their analytics/ad business
The IT world has lost a lot of credibility with me for supporting this nonsense. Bad craftsmanship, self aggrandizement rhetoric, gregarious antics... fuck off
Emotional capture of 20-something grads with notions of being the next Bezos or Gates
Agreed. A couple years ago, I set my parents, wife’s parents, and a few others up with Raspberry Pis
I manage their setups with Ansible
They have syncthing and we can put photos on our local Pi using SMB apps on our phones
We can browse to them and view our latest adventures through a minimal HTML/CSS/JS viewer I borrowed from github
These services are a joke. Building huge data centers doesn’t serve users. It services their analytics/ad business
The IT world has lost a lot of credibility with me for supporting this nonsense. Bad craftsmanship, self aggrandizement rhetoric, gregarious antics... fuck off
Emotional capture of 20-something grads with notions of being the next Bezos or Gates
Most will end up cube workers like their buddies that went to business school: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16946951