The last bit sounds a lot like an advertisement for Lemmy ^^
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Nah it’s about as bad as it’s been for the past 2 decades, when the Internet became commercial.
In the 90’s Internet was driven by enthusiasts, who actually cared about the subject of their sites. Today the noise from commercial interests dominate almost completely.
I’d sacrifice Google and YouTube in a heart beat, and go back to Alta vista even web crawler as my main search engine, if it meant we could get the quality internet experience we had in the 90’s.What I miss the most about the 90’s web is websites being reduced to the bare minimum possible. Delivery of content first then everything else. The only thing that got an exception: GIF images.
But… but there were no ads! How did people know what to buy?
Oh, there were ads. Small to medium sized banners you easily missed. The only adblock you needed was disabled pop-ups.
Let’s revolt and bring back web rings!
Fuck yes, good relevant sites to the subject of your interest, created b y people who actually know about it, because they are genuinely interested.
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Tbh as the internet gets worse I just keep using it less and less.
I love the stereotypes, angry Twitter, idiot Tiktok and paranoid Facebook.
The part about the filter bubble being the opposite way around is interesting. But it does intuitively make sense, because we do build our RL-society-circles as a filter bubble, so the online one stresses us because it is not that.
I kind of get what they are coming from, but I don’t fully agree with their take of being more exposed to other views on the internet. At least not as a general rule.
There are loads of people who (understandably) will block any and all opposing views from their feeds, making the remaining stuff only things they agree with
And even if they don’t do that they’ll join only communities where the bias is already there.
Lol, yeah, when watching that bit my mind goes “wait, that’s just forums and Fediverse”
That’s why it feels so cozy here.
I mean, they’re right. The internet really IS worse than ever, and I don’t think the Dork Web (federated social media) does enough to fill the gap of Twitter at its peak ten years ago.
If you really want to play “get off my lawn,” I’d suggest that the internet is also not as good as it was in the 1990s, where just being on suggested a level of competency with technology that no longer seems to apply. Yes, the download speeds were terrible and there was no YouTube, but 1990s internet was a literary pursuit. Now, it’s largely visual, and tailor-made for short attention spans. Instead of mind-enriching, it’s mind-draining, like television.
Here is an alternative Piped link(s):
https://piped.video/fuFlMtZmvY0
Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.
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