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Goodman@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

Glad to be here, witnessing the death of the internet as we know it here with you all. I’m pretty sure most of you are real so let’s enjoy the show together before we all go outside again!

As the internet lay dying I wondered if I should be crying A great gift to mankind is losing it’s mind

Should we should stay? Say the friends we made along the way

Who are we without web? But who, is the web without the we?

Even as we grief and leave

Remember.

There is no web without the we And where we go the web will be

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toynbee@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
Are you real?

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- Goodman@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
  Yes AI is utter shite at poetry. Its the only proof of humanity I can convey over text except for swearing to show that I’m not a sterile soulless corporate autocomplete taking the space of valuable human interaction.
  
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  - Amir@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
    It’s very good at slightly changing the phrasing of existing poetry though
    
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- SethTaylor@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
  I’m not real
  
  I’m a figment of your imagination
  
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  - toynbee@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
    That’s a different lemming.
    
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fossilesque@mander.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
Gone like Geocities.

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- Goodman@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
  Yes it sort of feels like online ecosystem collapse. Between all the insincerity, ads and slop. Very few online places feel alive :(
  
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Cargon@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
The Great Unpluggening!

I think the Internet will persist, but the public spaces on the Internet will ba treated like people treat the tabloid magazines at the grocery store checkout. Unused and largely ridiculed.

I expect invite-only microcommunities will thrive though.

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- Goodman@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
  You are right my friend. But i’m afraid that this might be at odds with annonimity online. These micro communities might look a lot like this, just more restrictive on the user registration side.
  
  I can imagine that we may have a federated community of human verified forums. Where you have to go to the computer club at least once to get a forum account.
  
  Anyways, the death of online truth and authenticity gives us a tremendous opportunity to reinvent what online contact should look like. But inevitably, it will be more outside and less online I think.
  
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