Really feels like it ramped up more in the 20s than the 10s.
We can blame AI and the reproduction of absolute sh*t and misinformation spreading like a wildfire. Its not all one thing but a zenith of shitposting that got us here.
The article literally details the timeline and it’s not 2020
I’m just commenting based on my own experience. I thought we were allowed to do that on internet forums.
Sometimes I wonder if we don’t need a reset. An internet more resilient to the issues of the internet of the 20s, such as:
- huge pages for kilobytes worth of content
- everyone and their dog gets your personal info
- advertisement / spam / marketing everywhere
- walled gardens and paywalls everywhere
- scrapping against consent
I believe that #1 and #2 could be addressed by the popularisation of protocols like Gemini (not to be confused with Google’s LLM). The other three are trickier; you want the ability to kick out uncooperative parties (corporations, advertisers, etc.), without the ability to kick out your typical human user… and that’s like trying to eat the cake and have it too.
