The last bit sounds a lot like an advertisement for Lemmy ^^
One model that seemed to work well was the pre-social media internet old people might remember: bulletin boards, forums, blogs.
Ouch.
The video makes an interesting comparison between online and offline communities, but I think it’s missed how common identities that gave offline communities cohesion have also broken down in the modern age. Increasing pressure for jobs and housing, among other things, have forced many societies to become a lot more internally mobile. This has resulted in a much diminished sense of local community because so many people rarely stay in one place long enough to form local bonds.
Supporting the local sports team and attending the local church together once helped us overlook our differences, but those shared experiences are shrinking. That loss of offline cohesion is contributing to the alienation and polarisation alongside the troubles online.
Buffalox@lemmy.world 11 months ago
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 what they did.
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.
Vidar@feddit.de 11 months ago
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.
Buffalox@lemmy.world 11 months ago
But… but there were no ads! How did people know what to buy?
ricecooker@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
Let’s revolt and bring back web rings!
Buffalox@lemmy.world 11 months ago
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.