Comment by swyx
1 day ago
you can only blame capitalism so much for the unpopularity of hypercardlike things vs instagram/facebook/twitter etc
on some level it is just human nature to want to consume than create. just is. its not great but lets not act like people havent tried to make creative new platforms for self expression and software creation and they all kinda failed
> is just human nature to want to consume than create
That may be true.
But it doesn't really explain why the tools for simple popular creation are not there. There are a lot of people in the world who would use them, even if its only 1%.
They were there, but nobody used them.
For a long while, Apple computers came an entrie creative suite of programs to make your own content and publish it on the Internet via iWeb.
For a variety of reasons, hardly anyone took advantage of it.