Depending on the context they might be right. Like, the internet of the mid and late 2010’s was pretty much better than today and we’ll never go back to that peak.
It’s funny you say that, cause many people my age feel the same way about the internet of the early-mid 2000s, the wild west days of the internet. We always remember the things of our youth more fondly.
Eh, certainly a lot of big sites are shitting their pants right now, but I don’t think the internet as a whole is doing that bad. It’s really the consolidation of internet communities in the 2010s that lead us to this point, now we’ve learned a hard lesson. Even as things fall apart, FOSS thrives in their wake. We’re in a pretty sucky transition period, but I think the internet will be fine in the long run.
Depending on the context they might be right. Like, the internet of the mid and late 2010’s was pretty much better than today and we’ll never go back to that peak.
It’s funny you say that, cause many people my age feel the same way about the internet of the early-mid 2000s, the wild west days of the internet. We always remember the things of our youth more fondly.
Youth? I’m in my 40’s. The internet being on a downward quality trend isn’t to do with age of the perceiver.
We’re on Lemmy. 90% of this place’s users are hee because of objectively factual enshitification of one service. I can list many, many more.
Eh, certainly a lot of big sites are shitting their pants right now, but I don’t think the internet as a whole is doing that bad. It’s really the consolidation of internet communities in the 2010s that lead us to this point, now we’ve learned a hard lesson. Even as things fall apart, FOSS thrives in their wake. We’re in a pretty sucky transition period, but I think the internet will be fine in the long run.
I Redd what you had to say, and I can Digg it.
ah yes the halcyon years of “the late 2010s”, wherein, in 2019, nothing bad happened.