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Internet developments have gone from exciting to dreadful. (lemmy.ml)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Idk if this is the right community for this conversation, but it's been on my mind and I want to share it with someone.

In the 00's every new thing we heard about the internet was exciting. There were new protocols, new ways to communicate, new ways to share files, new ways to find each other. Every time we heard anything new about the internet, it was always progress.

That lasted into the early teens and then things started changing. Things started stagnating. Now we're well into the phase where every new piece of news we hear is negative. New legislations, new privacy intrusions, new restrictions, new technologies to lock content away and keep us from sharing, or seeing the content we were looking for. New ways to force ads.

At one point the Internet was my most favorite thing in the world. Now I don't know if I even like it anymore. I certainly don't look forward to hearing news about it. It's sad, man. We've lost a lot. The mega corps took the internet from us, changed it from a million small sites that people created because they had big ideas, or were passionate about small ones, and turned it into a few enormous sites with no new ideas, no passion, just an insatiable desire for money.

We're at the end of an era, and unlike the last 20 years of progress, I don't think most of us will like what the next era brings.

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Turning your service to shit to extract the most money from your “users” at the expense of usability is the end result of commercialisation in every instance that has ever existed so far during capitalism.

Even if it destroys the product, this will not stop capitalists ruining it in the name of a few extra dollars/currency in the short term.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Good observation. Your options are to reduce your reliance on such services or become increasingly mad at the world. I think the former is more attractive.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

or become increasingly mad at the world

The solution to things going wrong and getting worse is performative smug apathy. Get schwifty. smuglord

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Sir this is a Wendy's

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Your options are to reduce your reliance on such services or become increasingly mad at the world. I think the former is more attractive.

You're not doing a very good job at that "not becoming increasingly mad" thing you were sermonizing about.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I’m already one step ahead because I DO reduce my reliance on anything commercial.

Relying on capitalist companies for anything long-lasting or worthwhile is foolish.