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.

    • UlyssesT [he/him]@hexbear.net
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      1 year ago

      Because you are not the sum of this site, or of the universe.

      Your very cool tryhard apathy performance isn’t new to me or impressive. If you’re so awesome touching grass and ignoring systemic problems, keep doing that away from here. Please.

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        1 year ago

        I tried to make an optimistic point about the Internet not being the only interesting part of life and you unwarranted used it as a platform to complain about capitalism. Who’s a tryhard?

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          Who’s a tryhard?

          You are.

          You sermonized about how cool apathy is and how people that express frustration with bad things need to go outside, and yet here you are. Still.

          Go outside. Be very cool and apathetic there. I look forward to congratulating you in your absence. congratulations