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With authoritarianism on the rise has the internet helped or hurt the cause for democracy and collective rule? (lemmy.world)

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

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As a follow-up, is there signs that the internet/technology may play a role in making a better society for all?

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I think that the web had great potential to help, but I think that it has had that potential heavily damaged by the profit-oriented web 2.0. The vapid ad-and-clickbait-saturated web we've created is exponentially less knowledge-dense than it was before. We really do need to go back to a web that's built by communities of people rather than profit-crazed tech giants.

I also feel like the bloating of CSS and HTML code, video-sizes, and uses of servers has been a bad idea. It feels like we've done these things for consumerist reasons rather than for genuine benefit.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

video-sizes

I'm confused as to your meaning here. Current codecs are miles ahead of what we had in the past. Unless you mean typical resolution (eg. 4k, 8k, etc).

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Yes, the codecs currently used are a good thing, and yes, I think 4k and 8k should just be left to downloading. I think videogame streaming should have shifted over to demo file formats years ago, so that your gameplay wouldn't be sullied by video compression (very big issue for games like squad and tarkov, where everywhere is covered in woods.