this person just used the term “fansites” to mean onlyfans and 😔
@Lady Are Those Even Websites.
@gaditb they're sites but they're not web
@Lady I feel like sites are more... total? managed uniquely?
Like a building is a site in the way a website is, but I don't think a cubicle is or a stage is.
(I'm pretty sure an apartment or a mall kiosk can be a site, though.)
And I think an OnlyFans is more a cubicle or stage than a building.
Is what I think my thoughts are.
@gaditb yes, but an API call isn't
so for me "site" means a particular set of technologies or capabilities (navigable via a URL, human-readable, “interactive” rendering of hypertext content) enabled by the internet, in contrast to other uses of the internet (things without URLs, things without frontends, etc)
@gaditb but “web” is more demanding as it implies a certain level of interoperability and connection, whereas a URL which can only be viewed in a specific app or with a specific login can be a site, but isn't a part of the web
@Lady I think also the possibility of links out in addition to in, for part of the web. Maybe.
But yeah I think I buy that.
... I think I might disagree about an API call definitely not being a place. It depends.
@gaditb well, i think there are also places you can pull from or send things to which aren't sites, because you can't *travel* there (i'm thinking of Atom feeds or ActivityPub inboxes and outboxes here)
@Lady Yup yup, same.
... although I think you might be able to do some travelling to them. There are podcasts that the way I listen to an episode is "search it up in the search field of my podcatcher, open the podcast feed, and play an episode from there". That definitely feels like travelling.
@Lady Ah see I've been treating "a place you can 'go' " as, like, fundamental to the conceptualizing of space on the internet as a whole, and the specific properties of what you can expect when you go there as what determines what type of space it is (what shape/texture it has, how it fits in to broader spaces, etc.).
Like, the way I was thinking of it even something as small as a Twitter thread, including replies (or not including replies), is a place you can go.