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.
How can we stop it?
Be careful what you promote in case it actually becomes popular and be careful of those who lust after money if they try to worm in. Be extra careful to not lust after money yourself if you ever find yourself in position where you could make a lot of it, it will slowly but surely eventually corrupt you if you stop being mindful of it or assume you are immune to it.
This reads as more Individualism. We gotta band together, the corporations already have.
I probably worded it badly then, because more individualism is last thing we need now
Yeah, but when individual awareness isn’t enough, how can we stop it?
End capital with 155mm HE shells. Datacenters are especially weak against those.
Well i’m hoping people might think about it. Gatekeeping is one solution but its very bad solution too. Once something becomes popular enough businessmen become interested its kind of too late to start reacting. Can’t think of any solutions for actively dealing with ongoing situation that dont create more and new problems.
Make open source choices when possible. Open source is the internet version of shopping local.