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  • bionicjoey@lemmy.caEnglish
    2·
    1 year ago

    That’s gonna result in a massive amount of dead links. The internet really is dying…

    • varjen@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      I don’t think it’s dying. I hope it’s a paradigm shift like when it changed from wild west lawless chaos to three or four huge companies running all of it. Maybe we end up with everything replaced by different distributed services. It’s going to incredibly annoying when half the search results are dead links or links to reddit but that annoyance can drive innovation.

      • Seasons@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        1 year ago

        I’m 100% down to go back to Wild West.

        The feeling and freedom of playing runescape on the early 2000s unfiltered internet was something I’ve missed. Maybe it’s coming back.

        • SirEDCaLot@lemmy.fmhy.mlEnglish
          0·
          1 year ago

          100% agree. I think we were better off with the Wild West. Users were actually in charge, server admins were small operators who didn’t have to answer to venture capitalists who wanted to 10x their investment, not everything was data scraped and logged to build advertising profiles on the entire population. Each community set its own rules, you didn’t have one guy in California deciding what the AUP would be for millions and then changing it on a whim because some advertiser got pissed off.

          While the big companies have created some very cool stuff, and using it is very approachable without any technical knowledge, I would trade it all in to go back to the situation where not everything is hosted on some megaplatform. I think it’s better for the internet that way.

          I like to think that sort of movement is making a resurgence, I’m seeing more people involved in self-hosting stuff, and with recent changes at Reddit and Twitter there’s a lot more interest in decentralized communication platforms.

          I also think the platform is the key. I don’t think any one person or group should be in charge of the public square. Not Spez not Elon and certainly not Tencent or anyone connected with an authoritarian government.

          • SpaceCowboy@lemmy.caEnglish
            0·
            1 year ago

            Yeah those were good times posting trolls on a site made by some dude who was a carpenter running the site in his spare time. Site had only one rule: don’t be an asshole, which would only get enforced when that one dude got home from work.

            Though I’m not sure that’s all that feasible now, too many idiots on the internet Poe’s law and all that. We can’t be all that wild anymore because there’s idiots that take this shit too seriously now.

            But I think the Fediverse is an interesting middle ground. I can foresee racist whack jobs setting up some instances resulting in a weird broken web of sites that are sometimes federated, sometimes not. Maybe we can organize troll raids on the bad guy sites and shit like that.

            It could be wild times, but I think it’ll be a different kind of wild than before.

            • b3nsn0w@pricefield.orgEnglish
              1·
              1 year ago

              the answer to that is somewhat larger moderation teams, like 6-8 people in their spare time, ideally not in the same timezone. hundreds of thousands, if not millions of said teams have self-organized in the past couple of years with all the corpo platforms going full “user-generated content” on moderation as well, in an effort to scale their empires, and now they’re questioning just how necessary those corpos are.

  • thenicnet@kbin.social
    1·
    1 year ago

    Man, I really feel like the internet is under a major shake up at the moment. Feels weird.

    edit: spelling

      • reflex@kbin.social
        0·
        1 year ago

        Feels weird.

        My man, I know there’s gotta be other schadenfreudes, schadenfreudians? out there like me who are loving it tho.

        • curiosityLynx@kbin.social
          0·
          1 year ago

          Schadenfreudler /ˈʃɑː.dɘnˌfrɔ͜ɪd̥.lɘr/

          If you don’t know how to read IPA, roughly “SHAAH-then-FROYD-ler”

          Btw: I just constructed this word based on my native speaker intuition. I doubt that you can find it in a dictionary, because it’s not something one would force into a single word. A more natural way to say what you mean would be “Leute, die (hier) (auch) Schadenfreude empfinden”, which translates to “people who (also) feel Schadenfreude (here)”.

  • Korkki@lemmy.worldEnglish
    11·
    1 year ago

    I guess it’s just impossible to make these types of large media storage sites profitable. The business model itself is inherently unprofitable despite there being a need for these sites. Like youtube will never bring a cent back to google, but they keep running it because it locks people into their ecosystem for data harvesting.

    Could also be that snap bought gfycat just to kill it.

    • dam5s@kbin.social
      0·
      1 year ago

      Youtube is definitely bringing back a profit to Google. Probably not huge, but definitely far from 0% return.

      Now they did have to shove way more ads in there to make it happen.

      Having an acceptable ratio between ads and a big media storage seems pretty much impossible, unless subscription based which most people can’t really afford.