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Hystoria is a simple, reddit-like site (built with a simplified version of Lemmy [0]) where only items older than 5 years can be posted.
I've been obsessed with media dynamics for years now, always wondering what variables can be adjusted within the current environment to result in better media production and consumption.
This is my approach for Hystoria. Time creates context: so even a vapid political article from years ago can present worthy insights since we know a lot more about the topic, context, and outcomes. Lindy effect: chances are that an older item worth discussing now is even more important now. And philosophically: we know exponentially more about the past than the present, and history rhymes, so we should talk more about the past.
More details on my approach are in the launch post [1].
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[0] https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy
[1] https://100millionbooks.org/blog/news/introducing-hystoria/
(FWIW: I find I enjoy the magazine, but I find it also spends a bulk of it in discussing interesting but marginal items from 6 months ago, whereas I would've expected a benefit-of-retrospective discussion of key items from the past)
I've thought about 'Lapham's Quarterly' before, it's just international shipping enough to put me off.
In any case, good luck, and I hope I'm wrong. :-)
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I agree, this is a very interesting topic.
Really looking forward to them completing the ActivityPub integration.
So it's not automated. I'm not sure if automating such a thing is doable in a reliable way, but I'm happy to be corrected.
Sturgeon was talking about pop culture. There was a lot of crappy music composed contemporaneously with Bach, but the crap has been forgotten and only the good stuff survived.
http://alternativephysics.org/book/GPSmythology.htm
...which makes the claim that you don't need to correct for relativistic effects for GPS to work correctly. I don't see an immediate, obvious flaw in his thinking, so I think it would be great to have as a conversation starter with someone more knowledgeable.
In fact, thinking about it more, doesn't stack overflow essentially depend on people being wrong and needing correction?
What in this site's privacy policy (which is safe to assume is a one-man band with no legal council) make it more transparent or free of shenanigans when I'm just sharing a link?
Maybe you mean reddit admins, who are employed by reddit to oversea the site? What issue would they be causing?
I had my own idea:
xornews - news about politics that are only in one camp, or the other, but never in both. For example liberal/conservative. That's the main split in my country.
But I realized it can't work without a bunch of moderators fascinated by political science.
When you got one wrong, it was a signal that you should read the story (i.e., that the story was not run-of-the-mill left/right propaganda).
I thought it was a fun idea with real benefits, but it never really caught on.
"Leslie Nielsen, star of 'Airplane!' and 'Naked Gun,' dead at 84 [10YA | Nov 29]"
Oh :(
I didn't realise.
[0] https://github.com/damoeb/rss-proxy
[1] https://rssproxy.migor.org/api/feed?url=https%3A%2F%2Fhystor...
https://hystoria.100millionbooks.org/feeds/all.xml
There are a couple more endpoints (one for communities and another for users) but I'm not sure they're relevant since I've closed off the community feature on this instance.
More details:
It includes every HN post with a date like "(1999)" in its title that has earned more than 40 votes. Some good gems in there.
I think sometimes seeing how much of a kerfuffle we made out of past current events can help you realize that time does go on, and things and people were that crazy back then too.
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22200573
(not affiliated, and not a subscriber)
Recognizing the dubious assumptions upon which the Iraq war started should provide perspective to people debating the merits of modern wars and their motivations.
This project is not meant to encourage people to ignore the present...it's meant to provide additional perspective for understanding the present from the past.
But that's the world we live in. No single platform can (or should) dominate the media landscape. Everyone has to play in harmony with everyone else.
There's no silver bullet winner-take-all outcome for this thing we call the media.
Not sure how long this manual honors-system style thing will work, but I'm not sure of a reliable way to automate this.
