Reblogged by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
paul_irish@toot.cafe ("Paul Irish") wrote:
Web pages! 🥰 New Yorker piece highlights how the humble homepage offers sanctuary to social media overload. Some excerpts:
> Surrounded by dreck, the digital citizen is discovering that the best way to find what she used to get from social platforms is to type a URL into a browser bar and visit an individual site.
> The longevity [...] hints at the possibility that giant social platforms may ultimately seem like an aberration in the history of digital journalism.
https://www.newyorker.com/culture/infinite-scroll/the-revenge-of-the-home-page