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>The internet has been weaponized. Ugh... I can't believe that I'm saying this but... I agree with you, wholeheartedly. I am about as nerdy as you can get and

>The internet has been weaponized. Ugh... I can't believe that I'm saying this but... I agree with you, wholeheartedly. I am about as nerdy as you can get and a huge tech enthusiast and I'm just starting to hate the internet outside of a few sites that I visit to stay "in the know". I feel like every day I'm learning less and less valuable information and more and more pop culture, meme-ified information just because it makes money. It feels like the entire scope of the internet shifted away from individuals creating cool things to huge companies advertising for whatever their latest money-maker is. Some of it is still enjoyable (e.g., Hot Ones, musicians, programmers) but it's all just slowly getting swallowed up.

wolco 7y ago
Where do you visit? From the darknet to using translation software to read what is going on around the world the internet... to checking out random pastebins. There is a lot of interesting stuff...just not on facebook/twitter.
- dkonofalski 7y ago
  I didn't say that it wasn't interesting. There's plenty of "interesting" things on the internet but the overall experience for the average person is pretty bad. Take, for instance, the proliferation of sites that once embedded YouTube videos. Those sites are now all broken because DMCA requests have taken down those videos without replacing or redirecting them. It seems like the only care being put into the internet is into monetizing and commercializing it.