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I've had this theory for a while now, and it seems to be playing out. The future of the internet is going to be behind a paywall. The old internet as we know i
by Flatcircle 2y ago
I've had this theory for a while now, and it seems to be playing out. The future of the internet is going to be behind a paywall.
The old internet as we know it, the free one, will be a cesspool of ads, spam, and scams. A deserted wasteland no one goes to.
Internet connected devices, (especially for kids) will only connect to whitelisted, paid sites.
Perhaps we'll look back and remember the innocence we used to have about the old, open internet.
- d3w3y 2y agoYou might not be too far off. Someone should start a league of free-web Avengers to blast the internet wide open again.
- burningChrome 2y agoI think you're spot on. As soon as social media went from this really cool place to connect with communities and people into a cesspool of partisan politics, overbearing ads and massive echo chambers and horrific abuse of people's private information - the sheen of the internet had worn off for me. Maybe I'm just being a pessimist and am only seeing the negative stuff, but it just feels overwhelmingly bad. this AI spam is just another nail in the coffin for me. I've already been pulling back from the internet for a while now, and nothing has given me any encouragement to engage any more than I absolutely have to at this point.