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If the majority (vast majority) of users of the internet rarely break out of social media and you posit that social media is largely 'dead', then isn't the inte
by ianai 4y ago
If the majority (vast majority) of users of the internet rarely break out of social media and you posit that social media is largely 'dead', then isn't the internet effectively dead for the vast majority of users?
- IIAOPSW 4y agoWhat does it even mean for it to be dead for the majority of users if it was never alive for that same majority?
- WalterSear 4y agoMaybe a better term for it is the zombie internet.
- WarOnPrivacy 4y agoIf largest social media platforms all went *pOoF!* today, where would our dead-headed majority be in a year?
- cosmojg 4y agoOne or two of the remaining smaller social media platforms?
- doubled112 4y agoWould those smaller social media platforms then be large, end up commercialized some how, smaller ones pop up, and something else take over until we repeat the process?
- marginalia_nu 4y agoIs that necessarily a bad thing?
- qikInNdOutReply 4y agoSomething like TV but it makes me feel good about myself.
- mayoi 4y agoJust a wild guess based on past 2 years, but probably outside.
- tenebrisalietum 4y agoYes, and let's celebrate! Access to the real, genuine Internet people and places will be made invisible; protected by the gargantuan SEO-fed lipid-berg of AI-generated content, keeping the social media peasantry ever-corralled in the cattle pen where they shall be kept happy and fed by their keepers. Is September 2022 the final Eternal September?
- marginalia_nu 4y agoThe problem isn't really with the internet, but a handful of websites that have come to mediate the internet for a lot of people (despite appearances to the contrary, the two are not the same). This is a critical distinction, because the former is a problem like "the water is too wet", like you can't really fix that. You can build new digital infrastructure though. That's a solvable problem.
- JohnFen 4y agoAnd then that new infrastructure will be subverted just as the current one has been. I don't think this is an issue that can be solved through engineering. I think the problem lies in different domain.
- harimau777 4y agoCan't we just build a new infrastructure at that point? The current infrastructure worked well for about a decade. If we have to rebuild every decade then that's not so bad.