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I’m reminded of the video game Disco Elysium (spoilers ahead).
Welp, two paragraphs in and done with this blog I guess.
2nd to last paragraph:
And this isn’t some anti-AI screed — I’m all-in on agentic software engineering!
i’ve seen multiple “the internet is turning to shit, but i love AI!” posts this week. absolutely brain-dead.
The internet isn’t the internet anymore. It’s walled off, corporatized, and exclusionary.
The internet used to be for people.
Now it’s for profit.
Learning about the world through 500-character snippets, or 30-second videos, is not a serious way to engage with knowledge.
Just don’t consume it. Same for blogs.
It’s like junk food. It’s not going away, so just don’t consume it.
yeah, but you get socially isolated if you don’t consume it.
just like 30 years ago if you turned up your nose at mcdonalds everyone thought you were an asshole, because it was considered great thing and only weirdos would not eat there.
further all of this bleeds over into your real everyday life.
If you feel the need to eat McDonald’s because of what other people think, then you have worse problems.
so being a dick about mcdonalds and having no friends, is better than having friends and not being a dick about mcdonalds?
and we wonder why gen z is so lonely… maybe because they’d rather be alone with sticks up their ass than remove the stick, eat the mc, and just have fun and make friends with people.
Humanity may never see anything like the 90s-2000s era again. That was a distinct milieu of nearly unbound creation and discovery. Not only did corporations remained skeptical of the internet. People were highly averse to being manipulated because the internet was untrustworthy. Paradoxically that’s what made the internet trustworthy. Once trust was established of course. It was a perfect mix of factors that made it a unique period in history.
Everything gets enshittified - Capitalised, and nothing good ever comes out of those leeches and parasites.
The Capitalist religion crushed a new global, free and open digital community landscape. Say loud and proud: ‘thank you Capitalist believer’, for how it looks and works today…
I only enjoy very specific hobby subs\forums. Beyond that you can’t find anything because all the search engines rank to by ads. Looking for a real review is a joke, its all AI\bogus.
YT is getting worse w/ all the AI slop. I just stick to my channels that again are hobby/interests I have that haven’t gone AI (yet).
I haven’t been on FB for over 10 years, no IG, no tic flop, or other social media because its a nightmare.
I’m not encouraging you to use YouTube, but if you do, marking stuff you aren’t interested in and removing every slop video from your watch history can help a lot. The YouTube algorithm very rarely recommends slop to me
Never tried that or considered it, thank you!
yw, also subscribing to the people providing good content should help too. Most of my feed is from subscriptions, with related content inbetween
This I have seen in action, one sub I like is Mount Baker Mining, which lead me to Dan Herd, then to Mine Operator, and others.
I do this at least 5-10x a day, and they keep showing me the same shit from a different “account” same fucking stick man, same fucking asian guy with glasses, same old white fucker with white hair and glasses. I’m tired boss
Maybe all this bullshit is a needed step to bring back old internet
We need forums back… the fediverse is a good start in my book.
I hope that we’ll collectively decide that it’s rude to pass off LLM writing as your own, but I wouldn’t bet on it.
We won’t unless we stop the source perpetuating this “culture.”
Big Tech.
Unfortunately, they kinda have a grip on everyone’s information sphere, so I think our chances are low :(
The only thing that feels akin to early internet to me is the chat in video games. I miss being able to moderate things with my own brain thx.
Not a bad post and has some good points but I think they’re reacting to broader social changes. Not just the Internet. That mentioned co-workers, and that to me indicates a broader issue.
I’ve long thought that we need a web 3.0 that uses a different protocol entirely and is techie and difficult like getting on bbs’es was in the 80s . For a good 20 years until that one gets enshitified too we have another chance.
Check out project Gemini:
“Gemini is a new internet technology supporting an electronic library of interconnected text documents. That’s not a new idea, but it’s not old fashioned either. It’s timeless, and deserves tools which treat it as a first class concept, not a vestigial corner case. Gemini isn’t about innovation or disruption, it’s about providing some respite for those who feel the internet has been disrupted enough already. We’re not out to change the world or destroy other technologies. We are out to build a lightweight online space where documents are just documents, in the interests of every reader’s privacy, attention and bandwidth.”
No auto playing media. No cookies. Nothing tracking you. And they built it, as I understand, to be deliberately difficult to add new features to, to prevent enshittification.
I like this. I’ll check it out when I get home or if I hide from work today.
if all you want is static webpages and text documents you dont need a new web.
I want privacy, and long form thought.
Neither of those things thrive in an environment where everyone is trying to extract value from thought and personal information.
I don’t know who are they, but they could just curate their online experience by looking for something that is actually organic and genuine, and drop their anchors on that.
VRChat still has a little old internet. Some worlds are weird, but some communities engage in stimulating discourse. Of course, avatars and such are monetized to some extent, but not the spoken content (please don’t monetize speech).
there’s a typo at the end,
“These isolas are now much harder to find in the [pail] of slop, and I don’t see a way back.”
I’d expect nothing less from an evergreen guru gasp
Happy to show the way, as always. ;)
