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I hope you’re right. Everything was a lot more wild. You’d discover a blog through some link and feel like an adventurer explorer a blank part of the map. It was much more fun.
Yeah, it seems like people made the internet something valuable, a bunch of commercial businesses turned up to take the reins so they could harvest hat value for wealth for investors, it’s reached a point where that juice is no longer worth the squeeze for them and we’ll go back to a phase where the progress and generation of value will revert back to regular people again for a while. Likely that balance will then tip back towards profitability again and the cycle will start anew.
@Piers@z500 I remember in the early days of commercialization of the interwebs, the capitalists just could *not* wrap their heads around the idea of *sharing*. Legalities aside, putting music or art or whatever that you had spent money and time on, and then just… putting it out there for anyone was so foreign to them.
I like to think of it as a reset to early 2000s internet, which was basically the golden age.
I hope you’re right. Everything was a lot more wild. You’d discover a blog through some link and feel like an adventurer explorer a blank part of the map. It was much more fun.
Stumbleupon!
I miss Stumbleupon. I wish someone would attempt to create a spiritual successor to it. I found so much good stuff with it back in the day.
Yeah I miss it too. I found a nice community of people there too.
I still maintain a regular blog. Have for a long time!
(https://semioticstandard.com for the curious)
I think I might run a personal website, if this trend back towards the wild-ish west continues.
I was too young back then and in the past years I felt that it’d be too weird, but why not, right?
Yeah, it seems like people made the internet something valuable, a bunch of commercial businesses turned up to take the reins so they could harvest hat value for wealth for investors, it’s reached a point where that juice is no longer worth the squeeze for them and we’ll go back to a phase where the progress and generation of value will revert back to regular people again for a while. Likely that balance will then tip back towards profitability again and the cycle will start anew.
@Piers @z500 I remember in the early days of commercialization of the interwebs, the capitalists just could *not* wrap their heads around the idea of *sharing*. Legalities aside, putting music or art or whatever that you had spent money and time on, and then just… putting it out there for anyone was so foreign to them.
We may be past the point of a profit driven internet. At least in terms of social media. I would like to hope that we’re at least close.