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This isn't quite true. People who complain about the new internet and create alternatives, create communities with things like upvoting/downvoting, which is a n
by OfSanguineFire 3y ago
This isn't quite true. People who complain about the new internet and create alternatives, create communities with things like upvoting/downvoting, which is a noticeably different dynamic than the old internet. Moreover, the smartphone is now the default device for even people creating alternatives, and that means that longform text is much rarer today than on the old internet where everyone was posting from a real keyboard.
- krapp 3y agoThe people who most vocally hate the new internet created Geminispace[0], which doesn't have the dynamic you mentioned. [0]https://gemini.circumlunar.space/clients.html https://gemini.circumlunar.space/clients.html
- OfSanguineFire 3y agoIndeed, Gemini lacks those things (and also some matters of basic semantic markup and accessibility to the blind). However, the amount of people who took it up is so small, I personally don't feel it meets with the OP's statement that "there are enough people complaining about the new internet..."
- krapp 3y agoHow many people actually complain about the modern internet? As far as I can tell, it's mostly a vocal minority of misanthropic web developers. I don't think OP's comment was meant to be taken literally.
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