Wow the internet really took a nosedive the last few months.
I like to think of it as a reset to early 2000s internet, which was basically the golden age.
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.
You know, come to think of it, the internet has been oddly stable for the past decade. Prior to modern social media, sites used to come and go all the time. I had to switch forums twice because the ones I was using shut down. Same for my image hosting sites and flash game sites. We were honestly due for a major shake up.
The Summer of enshittification continues apace.
The link rot from this is going to be monstrous, RIP
I am going to not be able to find obscure gifs i remember from the 2000’s 😩
I mean, if you don’t convey emotions to friend via gifs I don’t know what to tell ya!
The money ran out, now we have to face cold hard decisions regarding what parts of the internet we are wiling to pay for.
