“I’m sorry to have to inform everyone that SocialGalactic 1.0 has gone down for the count. By which I mean that we are permanently pulling the plug on this particular form of it.”
A swift merciful death when compared to Voxopedia which continues to corner the market in trasnphobia, conspiracy theories and surprisingly comprehensive Englbert Humpedinck discography.
It’s unbelievable to me that two residents of the EU who profess to be technologists with “connections at Google” would completely miss the GDPR compliance requirement.
Even as a vanity project it would cost too much and require too much work. His cut-rate Wikipedia fork has to be generating most of its traffic from web crawlers and the handful of editors still left. A social media site, even a pathetic and awful one, is going to generate actual traffic and actual server load and require actual architects, admins and coders, and that doesn’t even get into regulatory requirements as Ryan pointed out.
I suspect he realized he’d have to hire people to work on this.
[…] did you all a favour and listened to a video by Vox Day about why he pulled the plug on his social media thing. It wasn’t the GDPR issue, which I’d assumed became too complex to allow the thing to […]
His Wikipedia fork has gotten some mileage by being included as one of the prepopulated search options in Brave, a mobile browser that’s gotten some attention from privacy or cryptocurrency fans (as well as being a pet project of Brendan Eich, formerly of Mozilla)
Eich: After Twitter noticed this, Brendan Eich made a tweet a few hours ago:
“We added a bunch of ‘search engines’ in 2016 based on suggestions from early staff & adopters. We’re removing all but a few real search engines now. This one was supposed to be a better fork of wikipedia. Sorry for not running a tighter ship.”
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That was fast even by Vox’s standards.
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I was expecting a slow descent into even greater obscurity
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Likewise. Though a quick flame out due to Beale not understanding how things work was always a possibility.
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They must have lost interest due to lack of Humperdink.
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It’s unbelievable to me that two residents of the EU who profess to be technologists with “connections at Google” would completely miss the GDPR compliance requirement.
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Hell, I found it amusing that he was more or less boasting about it for awhile. Because of course he would.
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I think Vox already had the silly name thing covered.
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Even as a vanity project it would cost too much and require too much work. His cut-rate Wikipedia fork has to be generating most of its traffic from web crawlers and the handful of editors still left. A social media site, even a pathetic and awful one, is going to generate actual traffic and actual server load and require actual architects, admins and coders, and that doesn’t even get into regulatory requirements as Ryan pointed out.
I suspect he realized he’d have to hire people to work on this.
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Maybe but he’s claiming he wants to do more of that aspect not less?
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My rule of thumb is, never expect Beale to realize anything. It generally works.
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SoFailGalactic.
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Bravo – it needed a name and now it has one!:)
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[…] did you all a favour and listened to a video by Vox Day about why he pulled the plug on his social media thing. It wasn’t the GDPR issue, which I’d assumed became too complex to allow the thing to […]
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His Wikipedia fork has gotten some mileage by being included as one of the prepopulated search options in Brave, a mobile browser that’s gotten some attention from privacy or cryptocurrency fans (as well as being a pet project of Brendan Eich, formerly of Mozilla)
Here’s the source code snippet that includes it: https://github.com/brave/brave-core/blob/8fcafdf77734828ebbccca494c7560b8fa888884/components/search_engines/brave_prepopulated_engines.cc#L99
It’s a bit odd to see it alongside various better-known search engines and commercial and cultural websites, but there you go.
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Eich: After Twitter noticed this, Brendan Eich made a tweet a few hours ago:
“We added a bunch of ‘search engines’ in 2016 based on suggestions from early staff & adopters. We’re removing all but a few real search engines now. This one was supposed to be a better fork of wikipedia. Sorry for not running a tighter ship.”
The original pull request to add it is from him (see https://github.com/brave/browser-laptop/issues/5475 ) but whatever. We’ll see how the set changes and how quickly.
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Damn – now how will I search for Englebert Humperdinck’s discography using Brave!
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