@Clinicallydepressedpoochie to Ask Lemmy • edit-22 months 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-22 months agomessage-square54
minus-square@cm0002link45•2 months 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•2 months agoThe search engines don’t do what they used to do. New sites cannot gain traction without million dollar advertising budgets.
minus-square@AnticorplinkEnglish2•2 months agoThey absolutely could. I built several of them back in the day.
minus-square@cm0002link1•2 months 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 :(