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This person is just, like many others, mistaking the death of public social media and the open web for the death of being online. All the interesting activity h
by api 2y ago
This person is just, like many others, mistaking the death of public social media and the open web for the death of being online. All the interesting activity has retreated to Discord, Slack, Telegram, Mastodon, Signal, private and niche boards, game chats, etc.
This stuff is all taking place in private rooms and small silos. If you aren't in them, you don't see it. Reddit still has a bit of a pulse but is probably on the endangered list. TikTok is probably the last big social and has an increasingly negative reputation, meaning it'll probably be "out" pretty soon.
The public Internet is probably dying, a victim of spam and over-commoditization.
- lmm 2y agoYep. This is someone who's too old to be invited to the cool parties any more and thinks that means Manhattan is over.
- api 2y agoI’ve found that ageism is kind of not even a thing. The problem is that the cool parties are not where they used to be but as people age they usually don’t update their priors. Same goes for the internet.
- chipsrafferty 2y agoThe public internet IS the internet
- api 2y agoThe Internet is TCP/IP, BGP, and other core protocols and the physical wires that carry them. Public wide open free for all space are a major use case but they aren't a necessity and they may not survive the spam tsunami of LLMs and troll farms.