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[Rant] I hate the modern internet
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this post was submitted on 20 Jul 2023
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What happened to the ethos of the original internet cultures that were so dominant. It's like large swaths of that generation grew up and sold out to become the oppressors. And the other portion are being crushed by that system.
Only a small % of people were on the internet then it grew and grew and the new people flocked to new spaces and didn't like the old internet culture because it was quite elitist and toxic.
You say elitist as if it was a bad thing. As to toxic, 1990s online communities has no comparison with casual baseline hostility everywhere today that is just off the charts. In fact, Lemmy already has enough of it for me to start disliking commenting. This is what almost drove me offline in the last few years.
I'm not sure still care enough to run my own instance and enforce stricter standards. It's all so much work and ultimatively futile.
I think the end of net neutrality hastened there older internet's demise. now corps are free to monetize as much as they like.
Yup. When net neutrality died it let a few corporate overlords rise up and kill off much of the old free web. What much of us grew up on was a much fewer, wilder web. One you could still dream on and where you could still think damned near any new thing could come from anyone. Now, you pretty much have to already have $.
Wait, what do you mean Net Neutrality died? I thought they lost signing the bill to end it?
When was the last time you accessed a http website (not https)? Basically any schmuck in his basement could cobble one up. Nowadays you have to rent a server from some cloud service which goes against the whole net neutrality concept.
People just stopped bothering when their browser screams at them for accessing an unsafe website. That's where net neutrality died IMO.
Wait, I don't get this. Https certs are trivial to acquire and keep up-to-date with Let's Encrypt. You can deploy a server like Caddy that will handle most of it for you. I'm a schmuck whose own website is self-hosted and I put an nginx rule to redirect http to https, because I don't think anyone along the path between your computer and my website deserves to eavesdrop on the conversation.