This is so flippant. I do read. And I've been online long enough to know that things disappear. I read slashdot in the hay day and was on Friendster, and MySpace.
If Hacker News disappeared, people would be sad because it was a unique place. And others would say "just go on Reddit it's the same thing."
And those people would be mistaking functionality for community.
Yes, all things pass. But if you read what I said at the top, it's not that we should expect things to last forever. It's that people are flip about TikTok in part because they don't seem to have more than a surface level understanding of it — or a completely different idea of what it was than the people who really used it.
If Hacker News disappeared, people would be sad because it was a unique place. And others would say "just go on Reddit it's the same thing."
And those people would be mistaking functionality for community.
Yes, all things pass. But if you read what I said at the top, it's not that we should expect things to last forever. It's that people are flip about TikTok in part because they don't seem to have more than a surface level understanding of it — or a completely different idea of what it was than the people who really used it.