sarah jeong

Say LJ is about carving out identity through personal narratives. MySpace is a transition from that to FB, which is about identity thru +

much smaller chunks of information such as updates & interests (early on, filling out forms / later, liking pages) + media like photographs.

Twitter is more of a supplementary form, like the channelless IRC that constantly repeats itself.

Tumblr is longer form, but same mechanisms of tagging and rebroadcasting. Less like a chatroom, but similar mode.

So what the fuck does Ello do?

Status updates. With little interactivity. Whoop-de-doo.

And like I hinted yesterday, it's Friends/Noise thing is still not as good as LJ's lists & filters. Nothing used regularly today is.

I mean, GIFs are good? So is Ello like Tumblr but for white media people?

I mean, whatever, I enjoy messing around with new things. Still gonna play with it for a while yet.

But the "minimalism" of Ello isn't elegance, it's dysfunctionality. Crapping in a hole in the woods is not elegance.

@sarahjeong i like the design fine, but i don;t like "beauty" treated as a political stance

@nathanjurgenson that is definitely weird but I also associate my bad political feelings about FB around the time it got ugly.

@sarahjeong and bought "beautiful" instagram?