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Re: Every time you click this link, it will send you to a random Web 1.0 website

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Post by RGamma »

mulmen wrote: post #111
RGamma wrote: post #107

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The MSM/MEM as population control vehicle/idiot honeypot is a salient angle though you quickly get into self-fulfilling prophecy stuff there. Perhaps it's me being overly pessimistic, but I too might have been captured by the mind-rot matrix if I had grown up with that shit, never knowing what was or could be.

The web isn’t going to help there. Crackpots made websites too. You aren’t responsible for what other people do. Just live your own life.

I'm not and yet the fate of a population is not arbitrary. MSM is society-level technology and it's clearly doing something to it that would not have happened in its absence.

I'm seeing it in personal acquaintances, who get lost in the information garbage sphere and struggle to contextualize the places that unfavorably shape their belief system (not talking about niche crackpot sites, but trash media here).

This is the polar opposite of what I had hoped would happen with this technology before it got captured by economic incentives. And it's also not what would have happened, had this mold not proliferated, and slower but curated systems prevailed.

It's not all terrible, there's resilience and adaptation. And yet I cannot stop feeling we're dealing with a quite unwelcome phenomenon that weakens a sizable part of us who would profit from a more controlled information environment the most (the dumb get dumber, the smart get smarter, and everyone gets more distracted and fickle).

Re: Every time you click this link, it will send you to a random Web 1.0 website

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Post by thallium205 »

Youden wrote: post #101
petetnt wrote: post #42

It's awesome how you can stumble upon sites that are so funny or interesting (in multiple ways) that you just want to share them immediately forward. Everyone says it but it's true: something just got lost in translation when social media pages ate the whole internet.

My theory is that it's that on many of these sites there's no easy way to comment, like or otherwise publicly interact. Sure you could try and email the person but that takes effort and you have to talk directly to them, not to a crowd. When you don't have to worry about a mob of negativity, you can write far more freely.

I just signed a guestbook I don’t know what you’re talking about!

Re: Every time you click this link, it will send you to a random Web 1.0 website

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Post by distantsounds »

matricaria wrote: post #2

What exactly marks the difference between Web 1.0, Web 2.0 and Web 3.0? I read these terms all the time, is there a good explanation?

web1.0 - read only (consumption only, very few self creation/publishing tools) web2.0 - read/write (forums, communities, cheap/free hosting) web3.0 - read/write/own (blockchain)

Re: Every time you click this link, it will send you to a random Web 1.0 website

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Post by netsharc »

jonplackett wrote: post #121
tryauuum wrote: post #117

https://logological.org/girlfriend Some guy from 1998 explains why he will never have girlfriend

Anyone fancy sleuthing to find an update?

His homepage has a link to his mastodon, and it's mostly about work, but there's a picture of a broken egg on a kitchen floor, and 2 ferrets around it. The text says "Our little kitchen assistants are always happy to help clean up after accidents.". So... maybe yes? In theory he could also be living in a flatshare.

https://mastodon.social/@Logological/107988795967786131

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