The Day the Good Internet Died

Re:The Day the Good Internet Died by echelon on Sunday August 01, 2021 @07:55PM (#28031437)

> I don’t even think open but regulated social networks like Twitter or Facebook will survive. They won’t be able to distinguish spam at all anymore so the whole platform will become bots trying to sell or propagandize bots.

Beautiful.

I want to go back to 1995-2005s Internet. Small communities like HN, not Reddit monoliths.

Did you pick your Snoovatar and switch to the mobile app? No? Well, have eight thousand reminders of it.

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:The Day the Good Internet Died by api on Sunday August 01, 2021 @08:01PM (#28031467)

I think it’s a mixed bag too. The enclave style network could be more interesting and less toxic and full of stupid crap, but it will be much less discoverable.

The golden age was after search but before spammers got really smart, and also before algorithmic timelines turned social media to shit. I’d say 1998 to 2012 roughly.

Things went to total shit after that, largely due to algorithmic timelines prioritizing engagement (which means triggering crap and trolls) and the emergence of industrial scale web spam. Cryptocurrency didn’t help either as a lot of today’s spam is linked to crypto scams.

[ Parent | on HN ]