FinchHaven sfba<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://sfba.social/@karlauerbach" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>karlauerbach</span></a></span> </p><p>OK: context</p><p>First web site using the pico text editor remotely over telnet to one of those home-brew [isp_domain]/user/~[account_name] web sites in 1994<br> <br>(If you understand what that refers to, you know where I'm coming from)</p><p><a href="https://sfba.social/tags/Doctorow" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Doctorow</span></a> ought to rework his <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/Enshitification" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Enshitification</span></a> schtick into a 2020's relevant <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/Appification" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Appification</span></a> hot take</p><p>Absolutely no one understands either what the Internet is or how it works any more</p><p>No one</p><p>The entire Internet has been reduced to dozens of "apps" on people's phones</p><p>Multiple apps for food, travel, banking, money exchange, health care, shopping</p><p>And all of it is sucking off Personally-Identifiable Information into each app vendor, completely unknown to an ignorant, credulous public</p><p>cc <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@eff" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>eff</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.world/@jgkelley" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>jgkelley</span></a></span></p>