Comment on the internet is worse.

altima_neo@lemmy.zip ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• kitonthenet@kbin.social ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  We can get it back, and the antitrust trials are a big part of actually doing it

  https://youtu.be/rimtaSgGz_4?si=fQc-lIFzT-0hoeNv

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  • Auli@lemmy.ca ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    No we can’t. It’s been consolidated. Sure some of us might get a little piece of freedom but the web is going to stay consolidated unless something major happens…

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    • kitonthenet@kbin.social ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      then give up and go away, or watch the video and reflect on your comment

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• FlyingSquid@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  The internet was better when it was Usenet and Gopher.

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  • WaxedWookie@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    The internet was better when it was a pair of tin cans and a string.

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    • FlyingSquid@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Oh sure, like that was an improvement over cave painting.

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      • Jamie@jamie.moe ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        There have been examples that are effectively primitive shitposts found carved into walls in Pompeii. People never really change.

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      • KingGordon@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        I definitely preferred oral history.

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      • CosmicCleric@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Cave paintings is overrated. Hand shadow puppets on the cave walls were always more dynamic.

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    • CosmicCleric@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Wi-Fi back then was using carrier pigeons.

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  • rwhitisissle@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Honestly, the internet was at its best when it was the fever dream of stoned, sexually frustrated grad students at Berkley. Infinite potential - it could’ve been anything. Could’ve. But wouldn’t. The real thing, after it became fully saturated in everyday American life, was always going to be some mediocre, watered down corporate cesspool of lowest common denominator, hyper-sanitized garbage. Because that’s what people like. They like safe, familiar, predictable, and uncomplicated. Well, most people.

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