I fell in love with may cease to exist, and in its place, we will have something closer to a souped-up version of TV – focused largely on passive consumption, with much less opportunity for active participation and genuine human connection

Amen

Seriously bugs me to think how there’s an aging generation that didn’t grow up with all this commercialized internet and they built it on principals like open source and to eliminate things like data scarcity. But now there’s a generation that knows nothing but commercialization and seems to support putting everything behind paywalls and hopes to one day commercialize themselves if they’re lucky.

But what is really scary is watching guys like Richard Stallman get sick without any replacement.

Youtube pranksters in shambles

Edit: Wow, after reading the page, this is way worse than I thought. Omegle founder was an actual hero, and the reason for shutdown is incredibly unfortunate

Aye that sucks. I never felt the desire to use it but it’s a shame something like that can’t make it. Founder’s message seemed sincere.

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