Comment on What just happened to TheNumbers.com should worry us all

• OpenStars@discuss.online ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Oh.

  The Internet itself surely will continue, but yes the “free and open” version is already gone (how to test this: attempt to self-host a website now, like a Lemmy instance, and see how long until AI scrapers bring it to its knees).

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  • theneverfox@pawb.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I don’t think so. I think it’s going to fragment a la cyberpunk… It’s beginning already through a mixture of government controls and profiteering. Large enough platforms will still exist everywhere, but I think we’re going to end up with more regional networks

    I think youll still be able to route a package across the world, but the age where you could access the same Internet from everywhere is ending

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    • Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      eh, i don’t think things’ll have time to regress that far before the pendulum swings back, plus it’s only getting easier to set up your own connections over long distances.

      What i can see disappearing are things like youtube and global multiplayer gaming, because that’s just so incredibly data-heavy. But lightweight stuff like sane websites, forums, chats… that’s quite feasible on something like a globally interconnected mesh. At worst you’ll have to wait a bit for things to load, but like… we would probably benefit from that…

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