Do you ever feel isolated in your interests vs. the mainstream popular content being pushed?

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[–]magnora7 40 insightful - 4 fun40 insightful - 3 fun41 insightful - 4 fun -  (3 children)

Just realize that the internet now has the most youngest people the internet has ever had. These youtubers you mention are famous in the 8-14 year old demographic. That's literally their audience, and how they got the views that gave them ad revenue. So much of the internet is being re-organized around the behavior of children, because they are easy to influence and a child's pageload looks just the same to the advertising agencies as any other internet traffic.

But I think we're seeing this trend peak, but it's still got some mileage left in it.

Then add on top of that all the propaganda, and special interest groups, and astroturfing... and you get the internet we see today.

But for us people who remember how the internet used to be 10 years ago or more... it leaves a sour taste.

That's part of why saidit exists. Trying to re-establish some maturity, logic, and sensibility in to internet culture again. Instead of letting it all get overwhelmed by literal childish nonsense.

[–]Raavan 7 insightful - 2 fun7 insightful - 1 fun8 insightful - 2 fun -  (2 children)

True words. Maybe only tangentially related, but I'm also a big hater of how everything these days seems to be designed for touchscreen devices. There are large blobs for buttons, shit called 'hamburger menu' (it was made for mobile devices where you have to make every fraction of an inch count... Not large desktop screens with a very high precision pointing device), JavaScript everywhere. I get that a considerable % of people use touchscreen devices on the internet, but when I actually visit most websites like this they ask to download their crappy app so what's the point anyway.

Here is a link I found explaining these things much better than I ever could.

[–]robo1p 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

JavaScript everywhere

This shit is so annoying. Twitter, a website that loads posts with (at most) 280 characters, takes a good few seconds to load. All while spiking CPU usage. Same for youtube comments.

[–]magnora7 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Another reason I'm glad saidit doesn't have ads, it cuts the pageload times in half