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.

  • @trailing9@lemmy.ml
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    11 year ago

    I read it in an interview years ago.

    The office suits and the browsers are indeed among the apps that were taken over. The money was made by all the other commercial apps, and games.

    I should say that I don’t support that abuse of power.

    • UlyssesT [he/him]
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      1 year ago

      Just take the L, accept your corpo hustlegrind clown show isn’t being received well, and stop dodging labels the way a failed carnival act dodges produce thrown by the audience.