We Finally Have Proof That the Internet Is Worse::High-profile lawsuits against Google and Amazon have revealed Silicon Valley’s vise grip on our lives.
it’s so sad. this is going to sound pathetic, but – i remember in high school browsing reddit and twitter and 4chan and almost getting a buzz off of it, the interactions felt so cutting-edge, funny and fresh and perfectly transient, it felt like i had a voice for the first time, able to post and have people like what i posted.
and now we’re kinda just…going thru the motions and everything is worse and companies are just blindly nuking things we used to hold sacred
Koof_on_the_Roof@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Getting hit by a paywall to read this article, maybe made the point better than the article!
nyar@lemmy.world 11 months ago
archive.ph/20231017195540/https://…/675575/
ominouslemon@lemm.ee 11 months ago
Do you usually complain when anything else in life is not completely free?
Either it’s paywalls or horrible ads+tracking. I don’t know why people expect to get everything for free, just because it’s in the internet. Especially something that takes time and effort to make.
PSA: you don’t get to complain about “the media” if you’re not even willing to pay for quality outlets
wreckedcarzz@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Yes, I complain about both.
Next stupid question.
Marruk@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Someone complains about one specific thing not being free. You:
Since you’ve started down the road of what people are and are not allowed to do: you are not allowed to participate in discussions if you can’t avoid making shitty logical fallacies in your very first response.
Pxtl@lemmy.ca 11 months ago
Normally I’m all about “yes they should be paid” but in this case it’s particularly ironic - modest ads used to be able to support newspapers. Now they need paywalls.
Title of article: internet is worse
QED.
RGB3x3@lemmy.world 11 months ago
The biggest problem with paying for journalism is that nobody wants to be subscribing to 50 different websites.
If it were easier to pay for multiple news sites at once, I’m sure more people would do it.
yoz@aussie.zone 11 months ago
$10 says even you didn’t pay.
DreadPotato@sopuli.xyz 11 months ago
They’re still tracking the crap out of you even if you pay, so they can fuck right off and die in the gutter.
Chobbes@lemmy.world 11 months ago
While it’s understandable that in the current economic systems news outlets have to make money somehow and one way is through paywalls, I think it’s also fair for people to value free access to information. Assuming that news outlets and journalists can still make a living, most people would probably agree that it’s better for everybody if the content can be accessed freely, especially since copying it and transmitting it on the internet is super cheap (particularly for text articles). This isn’t some absurd concept. Libraries are respected and valued institutions precisely because they serve a similar role, and we have the tools to do it on an even larger scale. Of course it might not be practical with how things are structured economically right now (and heck, maybe there isn’t even a better way to do it) but I think it’s fair to recognize that there’s a lot of untapped potential for sharing information, and it’d be nice if we could find a way to do it more equitably :).
BarrelAgedBoredom@lemm.ee 11 months ago
Are you always an arrogant anus or are you just having a bad day?
nick@midwest.social 11 months ago
Lick some more boots
Mango@lemmy.world 11 months ago
You don’t seem to understand what the Internet is. Sorry for your lack of vision.
TheBat@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Penis
atx_aquarian@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Wow, I think this is the most down-voted thing I’ve agreed with. Should we get a selfie together?
HaggierRapscallier@feddit.nl 11 months ago
Yeah, and a blatantly establishment-biased source like that should have been linked with an archive site.