I don’t like the commercial nature of most PDS offerings (including Solid now).
Either way, some good general food for thought in this article.
I don’t like the commercial nature of most PDS offerings (including Solid now).
Either way, some good general food for thought in this article.
Direct action against it; grassroots alternatives; state support for alternatives; legislation/anti-trust; state alternatives. Maybe some combination thereof.
I’d probably plump for the first two/three.
The only definition of user experience that puts Facebook or Twitter ahead of alternatives is a broad definition that includes the network effect (people I know are on it) and familiarity (it’s what I’m used to).
But in such a broad definition, I would then include things such as ‘you manipulate me with ads’, ‘you steal my attention’. This is bad UX.
In a narrow definition of user experience – how easy is it for me to sign up; how easy it is for me to share an image; how easy is it for me to share a note; there is nothing special to Facebook or Twitter in these regards.
You rarely hear someone complain about the user experience of signing up for an email provider. But that’s (nominally, at least, gmail black hole aside)
a decentralised service. It’s just because people are familiar with it and it’s where people already are. If a company came along and said – hey – for email – everyone on the planet must sign up to this one megaservice to exchange emails from now on. People would say – what a terrible idea. Because people are familiar with it not working that way.
I don’t think centralised services have better UX. All they have is a monopoly.
Following on the previous ‘degrowth vs accelerationism’ article, a view from what the other article would call the left accelerationist approach.
I wouldn’t call it accelerationism though. Just a harnessing of technology for the aims of equality and abundance. But not blind techno-optimism.
Good article.
You need to:
– create an app (https://developers.deezer.com/myapps)
– go through the oauth dance (https://developers.deezer.com/api/oauth)
– find the id of your ‘Loved tracks’ playlist (https://developers.deezer.com/api/explorer -> user -> playlists)
– get the tracks for that playlist (https://developers.deezer.com/api/explorer -> playlist)
I haven’t finished typing it yet you nob
Now I’m listening to hibernate on Resonance Extra and it’s awesome. https://extra.resonance.fm/
I was thinking about how to approach music discovery since ditching Deezer (which was pretty terrible for it anyway). I think back to radio is the way to go (I mean duh, pretty obviously really).