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I feel like there has been waves of losses.
- Web 2.0 upgrades made everyone feel like they had to have a shiny polished site. We lost a lot of fun amateurs.
Once apps started getting pushed websites started to get abandoned/empty. everything from shopping to small games. I shouldn’t need an app for the coffee shop.
Bots and bad search operators made looking and finding a chore.
Insta killed blogs, suddenly everyone wanted a insta or YT brand rather than a blog/rss
- Everything became sponsored =- say i wanted to find out how to polish my boots, the first 3 pages and everything everywhere suddenly tries to sell me boots.
This is why i no longer enjoy the internet. I know i sound old man yelling at cloud.
you dont sound like old man yelling at cloud. you sound like sane man in madhouse.
The only thing that feels akin to early internet to me is the chat in video games. I miss being able to moderate things with my own brain thx.
2nd to last paragraph:
And this isn’t some anti-AI screed — I’m all-in on agentic software engineering!
To be fair the internet was already shit before 2023
Not to the extent it is now courtesy of AI.
IMHO using ai to automate tasks is not the same as using ai to generate sloppy content
That emdash tho
Emdash is useful punctuation — I use it all the fucking time.
On the other hand, “it’s not foo; it’s bar,” once a quirky rhetorical flourish, now scans lazy and sloppy as shit.
Also, swearing like a motherfucking sailor helps establish one’s humanity. So fuck off. No offense. Have a lovely day!
let’s make them enjoy it less
The internet is in small communities we shitpost in along the way
Me either. Feels weird to be complaining about it on the internet though. It’s almost like the solution is self-evident. Oh, well. It’ll come to me.
I only enjoy very specific hobby subs\forums. Beyond that you can’t find anything because all the search engines rank to by ads. Looking for a real review is a joke, its all AI\bogus.
YT is getting worse w/ all the AI slop. I just stick to my channels that again are hobby/interests I have that haven’t gone AI (yet).
I haven’t been on FB for over 10 years, no IG, no tic flop, or other social media because its a nightmare.
I’m not encouraging you to use YouTube, but if you do, marking stuff you aren’t interested in and removing every slop video from your watch history can help a lot. The YouTube algorithm very rarely recommends slop to me
Never tried that or considered it, thank you!
there’s a typo at the end,
“These isolas are now much harder to find in the [pail] of slop, and I don’t see a way back.”
I’d expect nothing less from an evergreen guru gasp
Happy to show the way, as always. ;)
Why is this on the internet?
Why shouldn’t it be?
