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.

    • @trailing9@lemmy.ml
      2•1 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?

      • TheCaconym [any]English
        19•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
          2•1 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
          2•1 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?

            • @trailing9@lemmy.ml
              2•1 year ago

              Rereading the text, I see something else. He complains about negativity and corporations stifling small initiatives. Look what you are spreading about my comment that reaffirms small initiatives.

              I hope that you can laugh about yourself, because I do, slightly.

              Can’t you stop being stuck at me mentioning BG? You made it clear that you don’t care about profits but about abuse. Let’s figure out something exciting.

                • @trailing9@lemmy.ml
                  2•1 year ago

                  I didn’t excuse the vaccine lobbying. You are stuck in your first judgment. If you want to nag me then it works because BG is no hero of mine.

                  You are right about me caring about profits though. Logistics is everything. How do you want to create something without a positive resource balance?

                  Still wondering, what’s the entire point of OP’s text? I guess you focus on the evil domination of evil corporations. How do you want to resolve it if not with small initiatives?