• postmateDumbass@lemmy.world
    2·
    4 months ago

    There was a window where the internet was a huge positive.

    That ended 10 to 15 years ago.

    Kinda coinciding with social media apps.

    • gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de
      1·
      4 months ago

      Smartphones were a bad idea. Social Media got large swaths of the population addicted to screens, increasing insomnia and anxiety. Unhealthy fads like the “girls pushing each other into eating disorders” and the whole “men are all bad” mainly spread through social media. The benefits of communication and knowledge-gathering/-spreading could have also been achieved with stationary devices. It claims to “connect” people, but made them lonelier. The loneliness pandemic is real.

      The internet and commercial computer technology should have stopped developing before 2008. Since then, it’s just adding to the enshittification. The newest bloatware is AI and the claim that it could “replace human workers”. What’s next? When will be abandon commercial computing technology for free and open source alternatives?

    • Num10ck@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      4 months ago

      thats when the MBAs took over from the nerds because there was way too much money, and somehow not enough.

    • ameancow@lemmy.worldEnglish
      11·
      4 months ago

      It’s almost like corporations took over the internet, monetized it, and deployed every possible tool to convert it into an addicting advertising platform without any regulations or standards, driving up social contention, misinformation and propaganda because the more rage you can instill in the population the more “engagement” everything will get.

  • Strayce@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
    1·
    4 months ago

    We thought the internet would change the world. It did, but the world changed the internet, too.

  • rational_lib@lemmy.world
    1·
    4 months ago

    One could argue it did work, just a little too well. In 1995 forget trans rights, gay marriage was just starting to become a question and about half of white people were still against interracial marriage. As the one atheist kid in that era, I was certainly an outlier and society still regarded it as a default that everyone was religious. Basically only black people were worried about whether police were beating people up too much and for the vast majority the only question was why we weren’t being harsher on criminals. Society’s views on things have changed very rapidly as a result of being able to access information very easily.

    I think what we’re seeing today is not a result of the internet, but a reaction to the result of the internet. Things have changed too fast for some and there’s basically a cultural luddite movement.

  • Vespair@lemm.ee
    1·
    4 months ago

    I mean, the internet went to shit when we all centralized around enormous corporate gatekeepers like Facebook and Twitter instead of the personal websites of yore, so I feel like that sentiment still tracks