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Today's web is the opposite of what early Internet utopians had in mind. Now the situation is somewhat similar to climate change: even committed activists can no longer turn the tide for the better.

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Xer0@lemmy.ml
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The worst comment section of all belongs to Instagram. Absolute cesspool full of the most moronic people i’ve ever witnessed. Smart phones killed the internet. We need something that isn’t THE internet, and is only accessible if you have the patience and knowledge to connect to it.

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Piers@lemmy.world
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We need something that isn’t THE internet, and is only accessible if you have the patience and knowledge to connect to it.

That kinda does exist it’s just that you and I lack either the knowledge or patience to connect to it.

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maynarkh@feddit.nl
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No, we need something that is just accessible enough that I am still included, but all those other normies aren’t! \s

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Xer0@lemmy.ml
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You talking about stuff like i2p?

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sailingbythelee@lemmy.world
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If that’s what you want, it does exist. It is called Usenet and it predates the world wide web. There are still active discussion communities, though most of its bandwidth is used for file-sharing nowadays.

https://www.maketecheasier.com/best-usenet-newsgroups/

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t0lo@lemmy.world
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Knowledge gating was the reason the internet was great to begin with, only more educated people knew or cared about it, and the quality of discussion was better

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