What has happened to the internet?

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[–]jostiniane 7 insightful - 2 fun7 insightful - 1 fun8 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

I feel the same and coming from the same age group, I see at least two dimensions in this problem..

  1. The social media part fueled by the mass-canceling and the bots patrolling them on the other part.. It makes it impossible to have a balance free speech/no bots and spam.. It gets worse when bots are allowed but free speech is not like what we have now on Twitter, Reddit, Facebook, Youtube.. Trolling is such a low hanging fruit that killed the joy of social media.. I see only one way out of this: Have smaller communities hosted by non-profit freedom lovers..

  2. Maybe not very related, but do you remember the time when you look up something in a search engine and you come across this awesome blog that you want to follow.. Well this died too.. I mainly blame SEO.. The first search results I get are always the same uninteresting websites run by Indians having a boosted SEO.. I don't know how this can be solved..

[–]portace 6 insightful - 2 fun6 insightful - 1 fun7 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

Bots and social media are run by the government. The astroturfs are on here too.

Free speech was always an illusion. The internet actually made it possible and they've been cracking down on it since the early 2010's.