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by gavinhoward on Thursday April 13, 2023 @01:41PM
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The reason newspapers shifted away from being core is because there were other communication media to replace them. There aren't such replacements for the Internet.
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by nickthegreek on Thursday April 13, 2023 @02:31PM
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I dont think we are talking about replacing "the internet", but replacing fb/twitter/insta with many many more micro communities that might be a bit more gated for entry due the cheapness of spam. These types of communities flourished in the 80s-2000.
OP is talking about a large cultural shift, the type that skeptics said was impossible back at the advent of the web. The orthodox opinion was that the web was a fad and we'd all be reading newspapers and using coin-operated phones forever.
The scale of change that he’s describing — where the internet ceases to become a source-of-truth — would be a complete paradigm shift. Whether it's a "core part of today's society" is entirely irrelevant… newspapers were once core too.