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.

  • _number8_@lemmy.world
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    2 years ago

    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

    • asteriskeverything@lemmy.world
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      2 years ago

      I know there is truth in that the internet I worse.

      But I do wonder how much of our feeling that is worse is more based on the glamor of youth and nostalgia.

      • Chobbes@lemmy.world
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        2 years ago

        I think there’s some of this, but I do honestly believe the internet has fundamentally changed and the makeup of it is a lot different. This isn’t all bad, but there’s a lot of things that we’ve lost now that the internet has become more centralized and corporate in general. At least proportionally I think there’s far fewer passion project websites and a lot of people gather on big websites instead, and there’s fewer communities that are strictly about a niche topic. In some sense this is good because things are generally more accessible to the average person, but I feel like the niche weirdos have been drowned out a bit in the eternal September, and there’s something a little sad about that too!

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          2 years ago

          Thanks. You did nail why I think it’s different and even worse. I wonder what like… cluster of 10 years would you say was your peak internet experience?

    • chilicheeselies@lemmy.world
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      2 years ago

      Part of that might be you though. Things that gave us thrills in our youth become bland when you get older. I could say the same thing about ICQ and AIM vs reddit, twitter, etc.