I really hope this gets read as a body and not a title that gets cut off
Relistening to the first episode, forgot the 10th anniversary but whatever. It's amazing how much everything still applies, a lot of people now could use this wisdom. Also interesting how the Hierarchy of Errors and "the cost of perfection is infinite" came back for the Tekoi saga; I only listened to this episode once on 2018 January 6 (not three months after getting into podcasts at all), so I have probably even less recollection than most of you.
I do miss and have been recently trying to recreate this internet of people rather than Algorithms. Ten years (and three days) ago there was the beginnings of what we have now, but the machines were a vehicle of communication, not attention.
Oh wow, yeah, the run was originally only planned to be 10 episodes. We got 126 more.
I guess my main frustration is that it hasn't been radio silence since 2020, there were several notable signals in 2022 (Grey helping in r/place on his main, the Twitter account posting about flag votes, I think that's it but there might be more). BFDIA is the longest hiatus I've seen (just over a decade), but I've seen many many projects get continued after many many years, and I'm frankly confused by people older than me being less patient.
Funny the mention of people's short attention spans. I guess that's been seen as a 'new' problem for decades now. It's definitely worse now with sfc. Everything moves faster and all of the problems mentioned have been amplified. It's astounding seeing people give completely incorrect takes on events from months ago because they didn't follow more of it -- Kyle Rittenhouse an example of this effect that I saw a lot in the following years.
Anyway, good first episode! Excited to go through these up to 2030.
feddit.uk seems a bit unstable? Let me know if y'all move somewhere else; I can just change the address on kbin.