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I miss the internet.. A love letter to webmasters and – by Joan Westenberg

• fullshark 3y ago
  And of course this is posted on Medium in order to get eyeballs on it. You need all the audiences to abandon platforms for your vision to take hold. I'm fairly confident this will never happen, unless maybe Section 230 gets re-written.
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• skilled 3y ago
  Open Twitter -> “you won’t believe this insane product that’s going to dethrone X” (the irony being that most of these clowns use X daily anyway) Open Reddit -> Every single comment can be predicted ahead of time because Reddit loves Biden and all the garbage he comes with. “Facts? Facts are for losers, over here we value opinions!” Open Instagram -> Endless stream of meaningless photos that people concentrated “in the moment” to farm dopamine/likes. Open Facebook -> Pretty much dead for anything but conspiracy theories about the world. Open Google -> Amazon, Forbes, Quora and Reddit on top of 5 ads take up 99% of the real estate above the fold. It’s honestly pathetic.
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• mitchbob 3y ago
  https://archive.ph/2023.07.08-132711/https://medium.com/@joan_68303/i-miss-the-internet-c7e41544a8b9 https://archive.ph/2023.07.08-132711/https://medium.com/@joa...
• GenericDev 3y ago
  Me too. I don't know if it's ever coming back. And I'm not sure how to bring it back. I still choose to create and share information, but the barriers are so much higher and noise is drowning the signal. It's a bummer having seen the Internet go from nothing to the current state of things. There was a golden age and we're losing the good parts from it.