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    851 year ago

    Hot take

    The internet was already ruined. It’s no longer the same place it was in 2016 or 2010 or 2000. It’s become a corporate hellhole where you can’t get away from tracking, monitoring and other shady practices no matter what you do. Almost nothing is free and open and everything is designed to milk as much money out of the product.

    AI is just accelerating this. Makes me think of the “old net” in Cyberpunk2077. Infested with rouge AI that have turned it into a battleground.

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      331 year ago

      Lukewarm counter-take: That non-commercial internet is still out there.

      As long as there’s nerds, there’s going to be nerds building stuff for the fun of it. Building your Lemmys, your Fediverses, your Geminis etc…

      There is definitely more legislation now, dissuading some percentage of nerds, but we also have a lot more nerds…

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      41 year ago

      It’s just the normal capitalist cycle.

      1. New thing invented
      2. Golden age of thing
      3. Corporations figure out how to engineer thing for maximum profit
      4. Thing sucks
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      21 year ago

      2000 or 2010 maybe (too young to know) but I’m not sure I see any difference between now and 2016. The only major new thing I can think of is tiktok but it didn’t ruin the internet.