Submitted 10 months ago by L4s@lemmy.world [bot] to technology@lemmy.world
The Atlantic: Nobody Knows What’s Happening Online Anymore. Why you’ve probably never heard of the most popular Netflix show in the world.::undefined
I’m pretty happy here in our corner of Lemmy. Why would I want to know what’s going everywhere on the internet all at once?
This.
Lemmy isn’t at mass growth yet. So right now - it’s nice to NOT see every stupid story about some no-name political guy say something stupid. Or NOT hear about some rage bait game pissing people off. Or NOT know about a shitty conglomerate is continuing being shitty.
To be honest the feeling isn’t like reddit of old, a lot of the people who have come here are the type finding pride in being on the outside and there’s a lot of arrogance and pride with people on here for being the ones to move here.
I think they feel superior because they’re over here and not reddit but reddit used to have brilliant long form discussions I’m just not seeing here. Granted reddit itself has way worse content now is definitely worse than lemmy, but we haven’t captured what we lost.
Wait, you’re not seeing those posts? Because you just described like a third of all Lemmy posts that come across my screen.
This might explain why meta wants to join the fediverse.
A shift away from a knowable internet might feel like a return to something smaller and purer. An internet with no discernable monoculture may feel, especially to those who’ve been continuously plugged into trending topics and viral culture, like a relief. But this new era of the internet is also one that entrenches tech giants and any forthcoming emergent platforms as the sole gatekeepers when it comes to tracking the way that information travels. We already know them to be unreliable narrators and poor stewards, but on a fragmented internet, where recommendation algorithms beat out the older follower model, we rely on these corporations to give us a sense of scale.
But I have heard of Stranger Things!
The Night Agent is the most watched Netflix show they’re talking about
I don’t know how many are like me who almost doesn’t watch tv shows at all. I tried to watch a few but at best it’s quite mediocre to me compared to a good movie, and they are too long for my like. Nowadays I only watch movies, or read books, besides playing games. I don’t know how much I’m considered a weirdo today for not watching tv shows at all.
Where as I’m the converse, all I watch is tv these days. Will watch 10 movies a year, if that. I long the longer and stronger connection I can form with the characters over a tv season. And I did they can tell more elaborate stories with the longer time compared to a movie. Different strokes for different folks though.
Don’t worry, I watch neither TV shows nor movies. I would just rather do something else with my time, like programming stuff, learning something new, and playing video games. If I am stuck with nothing to do I will watch something on YouTube.
I stopped gaming, watch almost no TV and it’s been like this for about a year. It just kind of happened. I’ve learned python and am getting the hang of bash, I’ve actually been making progress on my hip hopers about casual every day political extremism, I’ve redecorated my house using gene=active ai (in fact it’s what’s actually allowed me to work on my hip hopers because I do not sound great tapping even if I’ve got rhymes for days), repainted most of my home, refinished my bath tub, made an 8 foot tall demon statue out of cement that, while terrifying at first, I’ve come to feel quite a bit of fondness for. Also built my girlfriend a life sized turtle statue for her birthday, created a short comic book and action figure for a superhero alter ego for same girlfriend for Christmas , learned how these a whole host of generative ai technologies, wrote a 60 page Star Trek the next generation erotic fan fiction which I’ve begun recording using audio AI models I’ve trained of the crew for maximum effect (I’m ashamed this exists honestly but I’ll be damned if I let an abomination go to waste), replaced the faces and voices of every character in the empire strikes back with my face and voice and distributed to my friends, so many things.
It’s weird to look back on this last year and a) see all the things I’ve done and b) realize that there’s so many years where I did literally nothing
Yeah I haven’t watched a show in so long. There’s some I know I’d like but don’t care enough to get engaged, it’s the same with a lot of movies. I find the way a lot of characters are portrayed I have no connection with and feel like I’m watching these weird uncanny valley versions of people.
By myself I never really watch TV shows for the same reasons you mentioned but with my wife we watch an episode of something for dinner. Shows like chernobyl or the wire were really good and I’m glad I watched them but there are a lot of shows that just don’t end and they get old quick
Thanks for posting the archived version. I ran across this story recently and hit a paywall right after the article mentioned the problem with paywalls.
Yearly1845@reddthat.com 10 months ago
Saved you a click.
Alexstarfire@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Ehh, it really wasn’t. But I also couldn’t get into Squid Game either. I’m sure they are fine, but nothing I haven’t seen plenty of times over.