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The future of web browsing is the tiktok model. Where you don't surf the web, but the web is served to you "algorithmically". Do it long enough, and you'll be s

The future of web browsing is the tiktok model. Where you don't surf the web, but the web is served to you "algorithmically". Do it long enough, and you'll be serve the pages you want and it will feel like it was your idea all along. Gemini everywhere is the first step.

thwarted 1y ago
An infinite number of people at an infinite number of computers will eventually be served the content they desire.
esperent 1y ago
I wouldn't gave a major problem with this if the algorithms were tuned to my benefit. In fact, I probably prefer it since most of the web is noise that I don't need to see. So the problem isn't algorithmic content, it's closed source algorithms designed to benefit the company that made them rather than the user.
- mikae1 1y ago
  > I wouldn't gave a major problem with this if the algorithms were tuned to my benefit. Due to the laws of enshittification they will eventually never be tuned to your benefit.
isodev 1y ago
That’s the future if we leave it to the tech bros. As humans we can and should do better though.
xnx 1y ago
Maybe, but that sounds a lot like Google Discover, which is part of Android, the Chrome new tab page and (sometimes?) the Google home page.
- sandspar 1y ago
  Google Discover is also remarkably bad at serving me stories I want to read, at least in my experience. One of those products that I wished worked better.
OtherShrezzing 1y ago
I’d assume one step further, that the human-centric web isn’t what’s served to you, it’s just generative content created on the fly to suit your mood. Think TikTok, except where the platform is both curator and creator.
- ascorbic 1y ago
  Why stop there. Let the AI consume the content too, and then every day it can just serve a report saying that it consumed 1024 pieces of content and that this led to an increase in its satisfaction level.
  - typpilol 1y ago
    Lmao. No wonder Google fixed their bot views recently on YouTube. We're coming to this.
  - macNchz 1y ago
    Recording videos to send to our AI Tamagotchis so they don’t start complaining that they’re bored.
- therein 1y ago
  Oh, I just got this dystopian image in my mind where you don't even talk about memes from content made by humans anymore and all you get are weird themes inserted into your custom generated content. So just like how we don't watch the same thing at the same time anymore due to on-demand media, and the talking about yesterday's big TV show is only a thing of the past now. It will be one more step removed from that and you will have kids talking about this random thing that appeared in their custom show yesterday. Conversations like "dude, did you also get that singing toilet in your stream yesterday, what was that about".
_el1s7 1y ago
No, that doesn't make any sense, because the web is not a social media.
- siva7 1y ago
  For most humans, it is.
woodrowbarlow 1y ago
i legitimately miss stumbleupon.
lxgr 1y ago
That's arguably not browsing the web, that's watching TV. Nothing wrong with that, in theory and in moderation.
542354234235 1y ago
Or you will get the pages that are good enough to hold your attention, while being short form enough to keep giving you small constant dopamine hits. Nothing too interesting or too long, keeping you chasing more hits, to prevent you from feeling like you really "finished" something significant, since that might feel like a stopping place and cause you to go do something else.

thwarted 1y ago

An infinite number of people at an infinite number of computers will eventually be served the content they desire.

esperent 1y ago

I wouldn't gave a major problem with this if the algorithms were tuned to my benefit. In fact, I probably prefer it since most of the web is noise that I don't need to see. So the problem isn't algorithmic content, it's closed source algorithms designed to benefit the company that made them rather than the user.

mikae1 1y ago
> I wouldn't gave a major problem with this if the algorithms were tuned to my benefit. Due to the laws of enshittification they will eventually never be tuned to your benefit.

isodev 1y ago

That’s the future if we leave it to the tech bros. As humans we can and should do better though.

xnx 1y ago

Maybe, but that sounds a lot like Google Discover, which is part of Android, the Chrome new tab page and (sometimes?) the Google home page.

sandspar 1y ago
Google Discover is also remarkably bad at serving me stories I want to read, at least in my experience. One of those products that I wished worked better.

OtherShrezzing 1y ago

I’d assume one step further, that the human-centric web isn’t what’s served to you, it’s just generative content created on the fly to suit your mood. Think TikTok, except where the platform is both curator and creator.

ascorbic 1y ago
Why stop there. Let the AI consume the content too, and then every day it can just serve a report saying that it consumed 1024 pieces of content and that this led to an increase in its satisfaction level.
- typpilol 1y ago
  Lmao. No wonder Google fixed their bot views recently on YouTube. We're coming to this.
- macNchz 1y ago
  Recording videos to send to our AI Tamagotchis so they don’t start complaining that they’re bored.
therein 1y ago
Oh, I just got this dystopian image in my mind where you don't even talk about memes from content made by humans anymore and all you get are weird themes inserted into your custom generated content. So just like how we don't watch the same thing at the same time anymore due to on-demand media, and the talking about yesterday's big TV show is only a thing of the past now. It will be one more step removed from that and you will have kids talking about this random thing that appeared in their custom show yesterday. Conversations like "dude, did you also get that singing toilet in your stream yesterday, what was that about".

_el1s7 1y ago

No, that doesn't make any sense, because the web is not a social media.

siva7 1y ago
For most humans, it is.

woodrowbarlow 1y ago

i legitimately miss stumbleupon.

lxgr 1y ago

That's arguably not browsing the web, that's watching TV. Nothing wrong with that, in theory and in moderation.

542354234235 1y ago

Or you will get the pages that are good enough to hold your attention, while being short form enough to keep giving you small constant dopamine hits. Nothing too interesting or too long, keeping you chasing more hits, to prevent you from feeling like you really "finished" something significant, since that might feel like a stopping place and cause you to go do something else.