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Riley to Technology@lemmy.ml • 1 year ago

Why the Internet Isn’t Fun Anymore

www.newyorker.com

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Why the Internet Isn’t Fun Anymore

www.newyorker.com

Riley to Technology@lemmy.ml • 1 year ago
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The social-media Web as we knew it, a place where we consumed the posts of our fellow-humans and posted in return, appears to be over.
  • @kandoh@reddthat.com
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    30•1 year ago

    The internet I grew up with and loved couldn’t survive having the whole population on it. It became about making money off the userbase, political manipulation, and addictive distractions. It’s success killed it.

    • @skuzz@discuss.tchncs.de
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      9•1 year ago

      It was such a fun and fanciful place.

      • @tektite@slrpnk.net
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        6•1 year ago

        The unattainable is unknown at Zombo com!

      • @Syd@lemm.ee
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        3•1 year ago

        I miss the solar death ray.

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