Every major global news outlet is portraying Nepal’s protest as being against a “social media ban.” That is misleading. Even most large local media houses are pushing the same narrative—which is not surprising, since many of them serve as PRs agents for political parties.
A bit about Nepal—the government here is run by a bunch of old farts. They are deeply corrupt and will do anything, legal or not, to protect their positions and continue embezzling the national budget. They lack accountability because they know they can/and have gotten away with anything. Example of a recent one [1]. Their children live lavishly, flexing their designer bags and watches, while the commoners struggle working tough jobs overseas just to survive.
They know that by controlling social media—as they already did with TikTok—they can censor any news about their corruption (which is a norm here) easily and keep the people in dark and in their favor. Now, they want Meta and Google to comply with their agenda and with the election coming, they need this bad!
This protest was never about a “social media ban.” It was against years and years of corruption, embezzlement and censorship. It was supposed to be peaceful. But politics here is a dirty game, and these veterans are seasoned pros. They hired goons to infiltrate the peaceful crowds, cause chaos and damage public property—a very old tactic here. That is how the demonstration spiraled out of control.
If you want to hear the voices of real people, look at r/Nepal and r/NepalSocial on Reddit.
And ask yourself—do you really think people are ready to risk their lives just for social media?
Actually, this is more for others than it is for me. I wanted to share my Pocket list with the world, without turning it into a super long <li></li>s and wanted to make it easier to visualize the categories/relatedness of articles (hey this one is "web" and "ui" related; this one looks like its "web" and "performance" related).
> just a (large!) collection of things you've found over time
This one is to the point. So, the collection was exported from my Pocket account. Whenever I find any interesting blogs, I save it there (with tags so that I can find them easily). The oldest entry dates back to 2017 and over time, I have accumulated about 700-ish articles.
I think I've got a couple thousand things in Pocket and Pinboard, though probably less organized and filters than yours seems to be... turning that into a graph for sharing makes quite a lot of sense, I like that idea. Relatively low effort too.
Anyway, thanks again! This looks like a lot of good stuff, it's clearly years of effort and I'm very glad you shared.
Thank you. Honestly, working with GraphDB and SPARQL inspired me to create this. I did consider if I could create a "real" knowledge graph and even went as far as searching for in-memory graphdb that lives in client browser (maybe one that's built on top of IndexDB. I thought, hey if in-mem RDBMS like H2 exists, is there an in-mem GraphDB available? :D) so that I can query it using SPARQL, but couldn't find anything on it. I wanted to do this without any infrastructure while keeping the bundle sizes low but yes, the way you explained is how it should have actually been done.
I recommend implementing this in a 3D WebXR AR/VR experience for immersive navigation or look at your data through Flow Immersive. Seeing your data in free space arround you is a great way to gain insights.
I was thinking of making a time series of the bookmarks but yeah hierarchical navigation and FTS sounds infinitely more useful. I'll seek into integrating it into the Algolia index. Appreciate the feedback. Thank you.
A bit about Nepal—the government here is run by a bunch of old farts. They are deeply corrupt and will do anything, legal or not, to protect their positions and continue embezzling the national budget. They lack accountability because they know they can/and have gotten away with anything. Example of a recent one [1]. Their children live lavishly, flexing their designer bags and watches, while the commoners struggle working tough jobs overseas just to survive.
They know that by controlling social media—as they already did with TikTok—they can censor any news about their corruption (which is a norm here) easily and keep the people in dark and in their favor. Now, they want Meta and Google to comply with their agenda and with the election coming, they need this bad!
This protest was never about a “social media ban.” It was against years and years of corruption, embezzlement and censorship. It was supposed to be peaceful. But politics here is a dirty game, and these veterans are seasoned pros. They hired goons to infiltrate the peaceful crowds, cause chaos and damage public property—a very old tactic here. That is how the demonstration spiraled out of control.
If you want to hear the voices of real people, look at r/Nepal and r/NepalSocial on Reddit.
And ask yourself—do you really think people are ready to risk their lives just for social media?
[1] https://old.reddit.com/r/NepalSocial/comments/1n9ra2q/hit_an...