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Welcome to capitalism, pick up your free alienation kit at the door.
A lot of people hate it. We really are in an era of consolidation. The problem is what do we do to change it? It’s not like any of us have the resources to compete with or match YouTube.
Yes I do miss that.
Yep. It was far better before social media, when people had their own home pages instead of just having a profile page and some kind of feed. The majority of expression looks the same now. There’s a huge lack of creativity.
No the only websites I’m using consistently is school and Crunchyroll
I don’t because its not, like the internet is still a big place with a lot of niche websites with cool things in them. There are definitely megasites, and for some people those 7 websites are all they use on the internet, and there is certainly a closed loop feedback between those sites (everyone references wikipedia, social media basically circulates among itself, youtube is basically the cleanex/band-aids of internet videos). But the wider web still exists and is active, they just are not the central hubs for all of society like the megasites are.
I miss the old days before Napster searching for music on ftp servers and irc. Newsgroups for other stuff
Capitalism at it’s finest.
you could go explore The World Wide Web all you want. Just gotta get past the AI articles.
there’s plenty of content. the problem is the search engines have a monopoly on what you can find. they censor search results.
This is the 10th time I’ve seen this exact question asked, word for word on this site. Karma farmers gonna farm
no, I think the Internet is the same as before, its the people who changed. People like those websites thats why they use them.
I miss when forums were the main way of sharing interests.
People used to start their own websites. Then you got geocities, MySpace, Facebook, instagram. Nobody creates their own sites anymore for 2 main reasons
1. it usually costs money to host your own website
2. Google drained all the ad revenue, including remnant, such that putting ads on your site to pay for it becomes impossible.
it is now easy to monetize yourself on YouTube, or free set up your stuff on Facebook or instagram. Why would anyone create their own sites anymore?
You need a new search engine.
social media is a pretty important part of my job, frankly my company might not exist if instagram, tiktok & the like did not exist.
that being said, my life would be net happier if there was no social media
one big ad for things i’m not interested in
The internet doesn’t feel that way to me. It feels like the social media sites are just the surface layer. And deep down there are countless numbers of different sites. With different purposes.
Of course most people are congregating at the place built to have people congregate on mass. But there’s more than that.
Yes
[Enshittification](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enshittification)
The simple true is that I hate it too and I’m sure most people do as well. What I’m trying to do now is just get used to it because I can’t beat it.
Not really I like how everything is nice and centralized so I don’t have to go digging through random obscure websites for some information or file or whatever I need. I can almost always find it on one of these major websites with ease
Not to mention it’s much easier for things like messaging It was so annoying back in the day when everyone had some weird obscure social media platform that they adamantly stuck to. It’s so nice that when I meet people it’s almost guaranteed that they are either going to have a discord / Twitter / Facebook that we can interact on
Wait… there are SEVEN?
no. not really
Yes.
But the world is actually bigger than the internet.
Disconnect from the internet and reconnect to the world more often.
We need to go back.
I’ve been building for the web for at least 27 years. It used to be so fun, but now it’s just a nightmare and we’re well on the way to a dead internet.
IT’S DEAD! DEAD INTERNET! I KNOW IM THE ONLY HUMAN HERE!