# I am the Watcher. I am your guide through this vast new twtiverse.
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# https://watcher.sour.is/api/plain/twt View all twts.
# https://watcher.sour.is/api/plain/mentions?uri=:uri View all mentions for uri.
# https://watcher.sour.is/api/plain/conv/:hash View all twts for a conversation subject.
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# Options:
# uri Filter to show a specific users twts.
# offset Start index for quey.
# limit Count of items to return (going back in time).
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# self = https://watcher.sour.is/conv/lpmrc3a
The web browser scene in a nutshell
@novaburst The worst thing about this is that itβs from 2012.
@novaburst The worst thing about this is that itβs from 2012.
@novaburst The worst thing about this is that itβs from 2012.
@movq history repeating itself (and some people just never learn)
@novaburst @movq @tkanos Oh dear, what a great cartoon, I haven't seen it before. If browsers weren't so terrible. It only got worse.
That image was/is too visually noisey for me. Can someone summarize what it's all about? π€
That image was/is too visually noisey for me. Can someone summarize what it's all about? π€
@prologic literally the browser situation as it is now, since forever
@novaburst I'm curious though... If it's all so terrible (which I don't necessarily disagree), what's an alternative better approach? Gemini? Gopher? -- Or put another way, what "problems" were being solved by a piece of software (Browser) that has Cookie, Javascript, Local Storage, CSS, HTML rendering, a DOM, Extensions, Web RTC, Web Assembly, Notifications, Camera access, Filesystem access, Forms, a HTTP client,an AJAZ client, a Fetch API, ... Should I go on? π
@novaburst I'm curious though... If it's all so terrible (which I don't necessarily disagree), what's an alternative better approach? Gemini? Gopher? -- Or put another way, what "problems" were being solved by a piece of software (Browser) that has Cookie, Javascript, Local Storage, CSS, HTML rendering, a DOM, Extensions, Web RTC, Web Assembly, Notifications, Camera access, Filesystem access, Forms, a HTTP client,an AJAZ client, a Fetch API, ... Should I go on? π
@prologic Big Tech has to BTFO and stop existing, that's my take.
@novaburst So... Microsoft, Meta, Alphabet, Amazon, Twitter, TikTok, Oracle, Cisco, and others have to GTFO? π€ Are we _sure_ "Big-Tech" is the problem here? Or does the _problem_ run much deeper than this? π€ For example:
- Why do we tolerate corporations buying up the competition and squashing and destroying free markets and fraic corporation?
- Why do we allow corporations to fund political campaigns and lobby governments for their own gain?
- Why do we allow entire systems to be influenced by large and powerful organizations?
- Why do we eve permit the abuse, misuse, sale and profit of data user data that doesn't belong to the sellers?
- _and so on..._
@novaburst So... Microsoft, Meta, Alphabet, Amazon, Twitter, TikTok, Oracle, Cisco, and others have to GTFO? π€ Are we _sure_ "Big-Tech" is the problem here? Or does the _problem_ run much deeper than this? π€ For example:
- Why do we tolerate corporations buying up the competition and squashing and destroying free markets and fraic corporation?
- Why do we allow corporations to fund political campaigns and lobby governments for their own gain?
- Why do we allow entire systems to be influenced by large and powerful organizations?
- Why do we eve permit the abuse, misuse, sale and profit of data user data that doesn't belong to the sellers?
- _and so on..._
@prologic of course I could go even further to say, the world as it is going right now, it's royally fucked up
@prologic
- i don't think it's a matter of tolerance, but a matter of not enough resources to tip the scale
- he with the most toys wins
- they have more currency than we do
- d.) all of the above
i'm tired of trying to rock the system. instead building my own. the internet is merely transit layer for my world.