For years, the internet has been shrinking. Not in size, not in data, but in ownership. A vast, decentralized network of personal blogs, forums, and independent communities has been corralled into a handful of paved prison yards controlled by a few massive corporations. Every post, every “friend,” every creative work—
    • ghostrider2112@lemmy.worldEnglish
      91·
      4 个月前

      I was speaking more to the early days of the internet. You had to be relatively smart, and determined to get on it.

            • ghostrider2112@lemmy.worldEnglish
              5·
              4 个月前

              Yup. I’ll admit, I didn’t foresee AI coming along and finding a way to make the quality of discourse even worse

              • grrgyle@slrpnk.netEnglish
                3·
                4 个月前

                God I feel so bad for people even just trying to learn stuff online now.

                10 to 20 years ago we had a lot less content, but when you did find a hit on your search, you could be much more confident it contained meaningful information. Rather than just the official documentation repackaged across 10 different “articles.”

                • ghostrider2112@lemmy.worldEnglish
                  2·
                  4 个月前

                  Yeah, no kidding! Plus, in addition to shitty results, the likely inaccurate AI summary to further confuse you.

                  • grrgyle@slrpnk.netEnglish
                    2·
                    4 个月前

                    God yeah, I’ll be like half way through an article before realising it’s just padding out some very surface level details about what I’m looking up. Like the top 3 interesting things about the topic, but never an actual novel, like, human take.