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The internet is so lame and boring now days, its become so predictable and routine. I remember the internet back in the 90s and 00s, it was a completely differe

The internet is so lame and boring now days, its become so predictable and routine. I remember the internet back in the 90s and 00s, it was a completely different place, it felt massive and mysterious like each door you opened led to a another universe with all kinds of stuff going on, discussions on any topic you could fathom were taking place 24/7 all the time. Now we have discord servers with hundreds of users but no one speaks.. the cool myspace culture that promoted individualism and self expression has been replaced by the souless uniformed facebook experience. Rather than being able to speak your mind you have to walk on egg shells everywhere you go now as to not upset the corporations or status quo mentality. The internet was the mysterious wild west, Now its just a boring corporate meeting room.

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Pannoniae 3y ago
I have also noticed this is as well. The discussion online has been double-stratified - it's either really low quality or really bland. Most people are afraid to say anything interesting or different from the popular things/status quo, because social media conditions people to not rock the boat too much because they'll get downvoted/banned. Niche or interesting things just die. The remainder of places have become incredibly toxic due to the remaining people's frustrations with everything as well.
- zeroonetwothree 3y ago
  HN is an example of that as well unfortunately
- WA 3y ago
  Am I on the same internet? If social media taught people one thing, it is to rock the boat as hard as possible, because only this gives them attention. Twitter is called the hellsite for a reason. What is it that you want? Intelligent discussion, but not too strange, but interesting, not too toxic, but you wanna say what you think and you feel like you can't say what you think, because then "the others" come with their toxic bullshit?!
  - Pannoniae 3y ago
    The flamewars on social media are fundamentally outraging and shocking, but I don't find them any strange. Maybe my usage of "rocking the boat" was a bit inappropriate, I apologise. I definitely didn't want to say I don't want "too strange" stuff. It's just that the topics people talk about are very narrow, and even on the most heated twitter thread it's mostly the same stuff. There is nothing novel in there.:(
zeroonetwothree 3y ago
Let me guess-you were a teenager/YA in that magical time? It’s just the way things work as you get older, it has nothing to do with the internet.
WA 3y ago
This comes up frequently on HN and it isn't true. The internet has many more users than back then. You can still find your weird niche on the internet today. Just posted today, private blogs of HN users: https://dm.hn/ https://dm.hn/ A weird search engine which skips a lot of corporate crap: https://search.marginalia.nu/ https://search.marginalia.nu/ Or skip the first million search results: https://millionshort.com/ https://millionshort.com/ Then there's neocities, weird subreddits, 4chan, niche forums still running on phpBB discussing all kinds of stuff. You seem to expect that niche communities should've scaled with the rest of the internet. Like, back then, there were a few million people online. Now it's billions, but the few millions still online in their niches aren't interesting enough for you. Why?
- resuresu 3y ago
  If there were millions or even thousands using 4chan the board would be moving so fast as soon as you found a thread to post in it would have been trimmed from the board. And 4chan is THE most popular image board. I hate to be the bringer of bad news bud, but their isnt as many people online as you think there are.

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Pannoniae 3y ago

I have also noticed this is as well. The discussion online has been double-stratified - it's either really low quality or really bland. Most people are afraid to say anything interesting or different from the popular things/status quo, because social media conditions people to not rock the boat too much because they'll get downvoted/banned. Niche or interesting things just die. The remainder of places have become incredibly toxic due to the remaining people's frustrations with everything as well.

zeroonetwothree 3y ago
HN is an example of that as well unfortunately
WA 3y ago
Am I on the same internet? If social media taught people one thing, it is to rock the boat as hard as possible, because only this gives them attention. Twitter is called the hellsite for a reason. What is it that you want? Intelligent discussion, but not too strange, but interesting, not too toxic, but you wanna say what you think and you feel like you can't say what you think, because then "the others" come with their toxic bullshit?!
- Pannoniae 3y ago
  The flamewars on social media are fundamentally outraging and shocking, but I don't find them any strange. Maybe my usage of "rocking the boat" was a bit inappropriate, I apologise. I definitely didn't want to say I don't want "too strange" stuff. It's just that the topics people talk about are very narrow, and even on the most heated twitter thread it's mostly the same stuff. There is nothing novel in there.:(

zeroonetwothree 3y ago

Let me guess-you were a teenager/YA in that magical time? It’s just the way things work as you get older, it has nothing to do with the internet.

WA 3y ago

This comes up frequently on HN and it isn't true. The internet has many more users than back then. You can still find your weird niche on the internet today. Just posted today, private blogs of HN users: https://dm.hn/ https://dm.hn/ A weird search engine which skips a lot of corporate crap: https://search.marginalia.nu/ https://search.marginalia.nu/ Or skip the first million search results: https://millionshort.com/ https://millionshort.com/ Then there's neocities, weird subreddits, 4chan, niche forums still running on phpBB discussing all kinds of stuff. You seem to expect that niche communities should've scaled with the rest of the internet. Like, back then, there were a few million people online. Now it's billions, but the few millions still online in their niches aren't interesting enough for you. Why?

resuresu 3y ago
If there were millions or even thousands using 4chan the board would be moving so fast as soon as you found a thread to post in it would have been trimmed from the board. And 4chan is THE most popular image board. I hate to be the bringer of bad news bud, but their isnt as many people online as you think there are.