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> I’ve been mourning the old Internet over the past year or two... As a kid on the Web from the early 2000s through the mid-2010s, we knew we were living through something special. It's funny because I knew lots of people in the early 2000s who were mourning the loss of the "old Internet" then. Kind of like how everyone thinks the music they listened to as a teenager is the best and it's all been downhill since.
I like the forums of the old way better than what we have now, Discord and reddit suck I mean, even back button on reddit does not work 50% of the time, lol. Hacker News is the only thing that we have left that's similar to what we had from forums of the old. And even then, I think I like those forums better. Remember Deja News before Google bought them. Shit like that, that was good.
I have an auto-redirect userscript set up in Firefox so I never see reddit.com.
My take is the shift to mobile is what really caused the biggest change in the Internet. By the mid/late 2000s, the UX for surfing the Web was mostly pretty good. Navigating to another site was as easy as typing in its URL or issuing a quick search. Navigating the Web on mobile is much more difficult -- even 15+ years later simple things like browser tabs are a nuisance on mobile. Typing URLs is still a pain. Etc. Th…
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Kagi Small Web !!
It’s all mostly American tech blogs. I mean, it’s a nice initiative, but it’s less diverse than Hacker News.
Thanks for checking it out. There's currently over 30K blogs in the feed and we try to diversify it as much as possible. We welcome anyone to contribute more blogs, video channels and comics here:
https://github.com/kagisearch/smallweb#%EF%B8%8F-guidelines-...
Ignore Facebook
Ignore X
Ignore all of these places that teach us to be the all-singing all-dancing shit of the world.
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The central platforms began before smart phones were common.
Yeah but they weren't as toxic. I was an early YouTube user... The platform used to have no ads, can you imagine?
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Thrift and vintage stores have been pivoting to the premium consumer as well.
WTF is the premium consumer of a thrift store?
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Lower cost of living and higher incomes when compared to purchasing power of a dollar.
Do you have sources? Because my understanding is that medium income/inflation increased
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And of course the other chores: cooking, shopping, cleaning, etc. come out of the part you don't particularly enjoy right? Right?
You mean part time work, which already exists?