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

submitted 9 months 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] 7 points 9 months ago (1 children)

There are plenty of open issues

"What about the profitz" is the only one you care about and is not even on my radar.

you have chosen to ignore

Yes, because I continue laughing at the clown even if the clown's material could use some variety. I'd ask for balloon animals or some unicycle riding but you'd probably demand a subscription service with tracking software and a blockchain token.

but let's not pretend

Gaslighting language is par for the course for techbro creeps like yourself.

dehumanizing

I call you a clown. You called me a chatbot program.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I would like to know how you want to resolve the surveillance state.

Putting me into that clichee of a tech bro as if I don't care about anything else, how is that not dehumanising?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 9 months ago (2 children)

If you want to leave the circus, stop juggling bullshit and find the Great Egress.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

So that's it.

Here, you are willing to suggest death to resolve conflicts.

There is also this reference:

A Two hustlegrind comment chains comment where you, as I interpret it, reject competition as a tool to prevent market dominating rent seeking.

The upvotes reaffirm you.

From my perspective that's fundamentally wrong. You are either able to turn everybody into a friend and thus don't need conflicts, or you manage conflicts by distributing power.

If I don't see the light and you know how to turn the world into a better place, good luck for your approach.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

Prepare another NO U answer. That comment is bullshit unless the Great Egress has actual meaning. In that case, please elaborate. Otherwise try again. How do you want to resolve the surveillance state?