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Internet developments have gone from exciting to dreadful. (lemmy.ml)

submitted 2 years ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Idk if this is the right community for this conversation, but it's been on my mind and I want to share it with someone.

In the 00's every new thing we heard about the internet was exciting. There were new protocols, new ways to communicate, new ways to share files, new ways to find each other. Every time we heard anything new about the internet, it was always progress.

That lasted into the early teens and then things started changing. Things started stagnating. Now we're well into the phase where every new piece of news we hear is negative. New legislations, new privacy intrusions, new restrictions, new technologies to lock content away and keep us from sharing, or seeing the content we were looking for. New ways to force ads.

At one point the Internet was my most favorite thing in the world. Now I don't know if I even like it anymore. I certainly don't look forward to hearing news about it. It's sad, man. We've lost a lot. The mega corps took the internet from us, changed it from a million small sites that people created because they had big ideas, or were passionate about small ones, and turned it into a few enormous sites with no new ideas, no passion, just an insatiable desire for money.

We're at the end of an era, and unlike the last 20 years of progress, I don't think most of us will like what the next era brings.

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago (6 children)

We need an alternative to Email

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[–] [email protected] -1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

It's more like it's being revealed (or more obvious) what the purpose of the Internet was really for. Remember that it was created by DARPA for military purposes. It was never for altruism.

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[–] [email protected] -5 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Capitalism "nostalgised" the internet and technological growth. Good times create weak men and all that. Now that the kinetic energy of growth is no longer there to excite us and fulfill our dopamine needs, we find the stability and refinement boring and dull.

Touch grass, get your sunshine and do some dopamine detox. Life is not meant to be an infinite loop of endless consumer innovation.

Life is exactly what it means under socialism, and it so happened that we as millenials got to experience this burst of the most enriching era of technological giant leap for humanity, with growing from CRT computers with slow internet to high speed internet with porn, democratised fast speed computers and powerful smartphones unifying dozens of gadgets as a 200 gram glass slab into your pocket.

I am using a 4 year old Android smartphone, and the next phone will probably be used for 5-6 years (8-10 if I get Fairphone 5, on my next phone shortlist), signalling smartphones peaking like computers and laptops. My modern ThinkPad is over 6 years old. Linux is fit for desktop use. Tech has matured.

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