The Open Web is definitely dying. Some dystopian weaponized ads hellscape of an apps-required shiternet will be around for a while.
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aniki@lemm.ee 5 months ago
The internet is dying. Everyone knows it.
Boozilla@lemmy.world 5 months ago
rottingleaf@lemmy.zip 5 months ago
That’s an exaggeration. We had nice things back then with forums and ICQ\AIM\others, which we don’t have now, but the tech allows us to have them. It’s the society that has degraded.
jaybone@lemmy.world 5 months ago
The technology is working against it too. App search engines are just spam ads now and will never find that niche forum that has what you are looking for, like they once did 20 years ago.
rottingleaf@lemmy.zip 5 months ago
and will never find that niche forum that has what you are looking for, like they once did 20 years ago.
I remember finding them in web directories, populated manually by people, and from people sharing links.
A search engine was the brute force approach, and you’d find something useful after some manual work on 20+ page of results.
Anon518@sh.itjust.works 5 months ago
Forums are still around. People just got lazy and started using reddit instead. Search engines are also to blame since they don’t bring up smaller forums in search results. People can go back to forums if they want.
rottingleaf@lemmy.zip 5 months ago
That’s the point. One can think what they want, decide and go there. Or one can just leave their home and walk with the crowd wherever it brings them. (A metaphor.)
Social media make it appear like you could live a life like the latter. Doing all things you need. Just walk with the crowd and never decide.
People are afraid of even the tiny bits of freedom, when they are looking at it from that human stream which never leaves them. They think that outside of it, if a decision they make is wrong, they are lost.
It’s psychological, all of it, like a very subtle and less deadly slaughtering block.
Alexstarfire@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Reddit is a forum. If you don’t think so I’m curious to know what differentiates it from one.
Hackworth@lemmy.world 5 months ago
The Internet is dead. Long live the Internet!
I’ll have my AI agents talk to your AI agents.