@Clinicallydepressedpoochie to Ask Lemmy • edit-21 month agoWith enshitification closing in on all aspects of the internet has the american tech industry ensured the internet will never evolve past where it is now?message-square54arrow-up1180arrow-down112
arrow-up1168arrow-down1message-squareWith enshitification closing in on all aspects of the internet has the american tech industry ensured the internet will never evolve past where it is now?@Clinicallydepressedpoochie to Ask Lemmy • edit-21 month agomessage-square54
minus-square@cm0002link45•1 month agoNo, the platforms are enshittifiying, but the underlying nuts and bolts of the internet are still there untouched and so far every attempt by big tech to enshittifiy/proprietarize those has thus far failed
minus-square@AnticorplinkEnglish9•1 month agoThe search engines don’t do what they used to do. New sites cannot gain traction without million dollar advertising budgets.
minus-square@AnticorplinkEnglish2•1 month agoThey absolutely could. I built several of them back in the day.
minus-square@cm0002link1•1 month agoI’m down but much of the landlines have been converted to VOIP and won’t handle dialup any more :(
No, the platforms are enshittifiying, but the underlying nuts and bolts of the internet are still there untouched and so far every attempt by big tech to enshittifiy/proprietarize those has thus far failed
The search engines don’t do what they used to do. New sites cannot gain traction without million dollar advertising budgets.
Meh, fuck the search engines, let’s bring back webrings!!
Never could.
They absolutely could. I built several of them back in the day.
Self hosting:
Let’s go back to dialup and BBS forums over cmd
I’m down but much of the landlines have been converted to VOIP and won’t handle dialup any more :(