Yeah, into a dead internet.
The internet isn't dying, it's changing
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#13I'm sure someone, a very long time ago, said "The ARPANET isn't dying, it's changing." When a technology changes a large amount, we can safely say that the old version of it is dying or dead. The real question is: How much change does it take before we say that the Internet as we know it is dead and replaced with something else?
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#14Ludwig ‘Word Games’ Wittgenstein would like to have a word with you
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#15When people say "the internet is dying" (and really, they mean "the web", not "the internet"), they don't mean it will cease to exist. They mean that it's changing in a way that makes it increasingly worse for them. "Dying" is an appropriate analogy because if the decline gets far enough, it may as well not exist to those people who are affected. At least, this is what I mean when I say the web is dying. Most of it i…
When people say the Internet is dying, they typically don't even mean the Web, they mean one site on the Web that matters to them. The article us a rebuttal to [1] where someone is complaining that Reddit is going public. For some reason this strategy, or indeed the need for reddit to earn revenue, seems to be shocking to the author. To anyone with half a brain, and has seen the internet since it was an infant in the…
Don't agree. People are referring to at least a large part of it, basically the "visible surface" as exposed by social media + google. There are tons of good parts but if you wander it the way we used to wonder it in the 2000s and earlier, you don't see them so much anymore.
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#16Dead Internet Theory (2021): https://forum.agoraroad.com/index.php?threads/dead-internet-...
TL;DR Large proportions of the supposedly human-produced content on the internet are actually generated by artificial intelligence networks in conjunction with paid secret media influencers in order to manufacture consumers for an increasing range of newly-normalised cultural products.Re: The internet isn't dying, it's changing
#17Yes, the internet is not drying, it's changing, just as corpse changes as it's decomposing.
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#18When people say "the internet is dying" (and really, they mean "the web", not "the internet"), they don't mean it will cease to exist. They mean that it's changing in a way that makes it increasingly worse for them. "Dying" is an appropriate analogy because if the decline gets far enough, it may as well not exist to those people who are affected. At least, this is what I mean when I say the web is dying. Most of it i…
When people say the Internet is dying, they typically don't even mean the Web, they mean one site on the Web that matters to them. The article us a rebuttal to [1] where someone is complaining that Reddit is going public. For some reason this strategy, or indeed the need for reddit to earn revenue, seems to be shocking to the author. To anyone with half a brain, and has seen the internet since it was an infant in the…
> All while forgetting the sound a modem makes when connecting.
the physical technology can improve independently of the (imho decline of) quality of the sites you visit.
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#19Definitely isn't dying. The internet is a lot like main street. Still exists but after being decimated by big corporate, it changes to cater to alternate groups - which itself is attractive. Hacker News is a good example of this.
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#20Talk about a distinction that doesn't make a difference!