Melvin Carvalho typeth: | Whether it was right or wrong, it's something that is ubiquitous today, and | the decisions made to get us to where we are should be respected, things | could have turned out very differently. Even with non optimal technology | the web has had an amazing first two decades.
May I just dare to mention that the Internet was a great place to be before the web came? Not saying it wasn't after, but it wasn't so bad without the web either. The success of technologies has frequently been to a large extent unrelated to the quality of their implementation. Since we are not deciding upon the success of Gnu Social yet (in fact we never will) what we can do is make quality decisions, so in case what we do becomes widely adopted, it isn't yet another something humanity is stuck with, even though it's suboptimal. We already have plenty of technologies of that kind. So using what's popular is not a good design criterion for software of long term relevance. -- ___ psyc://psyced.org/~lynX ___ irc://psyced.org/welcome ___ ___ xmpp:[email protected] ____ https://psyced.org/PSYC/ _____
