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.