#satire /TAG
> 4 dispatches filed under topic classification.
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The Web We Lost (And Why We Are Building It Back Out Of Spite)
— A savage post-mortem of how a simple network for sharing physics papers turned into a 15-megabyte battery-draining surveillance obstacle course.
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The Fediverse: Sovereign Dream, Fiefdom Reality (A Comedy of Defederation)
— An engineering post-mortem of ActivityPub, Mastodon, and PeerTube: why decentralization is essential, and why running an instance is a hilarious technical and social migraine.
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RSS Never Died, You Just Surrendered to the Hamster Wheel
— Why trading an open chronological XML feed for an algorithmic dopamine slot machine was the worst technological trade deal in human history.
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Killing the 5MB 'Hello World' (A Tale of Modern Mental Collapse)
— An unsparing satire of modern frontend engineering: how we ended up installing 1,800 npm packages and 400MB of node_modules just to display five paragraphs of text.