Idk if this is the right community for this conversation, but it’s been on my mind and I want to share it with someone.

In the 00’s every new thing we heard about the internet was exciting. There were new protocols, new ways to communicate, new ways to share files, new ways to find each other. Every time we heard anything new about the internet, it was always progress.

That lasted into the early teens and then things started changing. Things started stagnating. Now we’re well into the phase where every new piece of news we hear is negative. New legislations, new privacy intrusions, new restrictions, new technologies to lock content away and keep us from sharing, or seeing the content we were looking for. New ways to force ads.

At one point the Internet was my most favorite thing in the world. Now I don’t know if I even like it anymore. I certainly don’t look forward to hearing news about it. It’s sad, man. We’ve lost a lot. The mega corps took the internet from us, changed it from a million small sites that people created because they had big ideas, or were passionate about small ones, and turned it into a few enormous sites with no new ideas, no passion, just an insatiable desire for money.

We’re at the end of an era, and unlike the last 20 years of progress, I don’t think most of us will like what the next era brings.

      • TheCaconym [any]
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        331 year ago

        A homeless person is without the mental structure to build something lasting, or else they would not be homeless or would identify differently, e.g. as a traveler.

        You’re a truly disgusting ghoul

        • @trailing9@lemmy.ml
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          21 year ago

          Could you elaborate, please? You have introduced the clichee of a homeless person. Your point only works if that person has such a tough life that they don’t have the time or mental energy to spend on vague ideas.

            • @trailing9@lemmy.ml
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              21 year ago

              You are projecting. You asked about profits and you introduced homeless people as the ones who cannot handle this debate.

              Now you are derailing with more insults.

              Let’s stay on topic. You want profits and I suggested that you should try to build a platform to make money.

              Can you handle that thought?

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                1 year ago

                He doesn’t want profits, quite obviously you do (and seem obsessed by it), you’re the only one doing the projecting here - along with posting pitiful platitudes that’d make a shitty linked-in life coach delete their post in shame

                What he did is ask you, literally, what you had in mind for the 99.99% of people that don’t win the tech innovation lottery

                • @trailing9@lemmy.ml
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                  21 year ago

                  Winning in that context meant creating something exciting, for everybody.

                  If he then asks what everybody but the winner gets, besides that new exciting technology, then what else does he expect but profits?

                • @trailing9@lemmy.ml
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                  21 year ago

                  What’s the hustle? When I say that OP should try for himself or when I reply to your question, suggesting that the created things could become the reward?

                  Don’t you believe that the fediverse will grow and that there are still many opportunities left?

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        A homeless person is without the mental structure to build something lasting

        Please kindly go fuck yourself. Like seriously please go outside and walk into traffic, you worthless disgusting piece of shit.

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        A homeless person is without the mental structure to build something lasting, or else they would not be homeless or would identify differently, e.g. as a traveler.

        Bill Gates stan to mask off fascist any% speedrun (8 hours, 3 minutes and 33 seconds)

        • @trailing9@lemmy.ml
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          11 year ago

          Where is the fascism? Should I ignore the reasons for homelessness and pretend that it is a normal state of life? Have I missed the memo where people are voluntarily homeless?