The future of the internet

The sad thing is zoomers were born into all the social media shite, that's why they're all attention whoring sheep who literally do not know how to use a forum. Unfortunately older people are getting more angry with the state of the internet and younger people are not really showing any signs of becoming more than either "4chan-esque edgelord neo-Nazi" or "Tumblresque furry troon" these days: the current setup the world is going encourages the demolishing of those who grew up with the early days from existing and the thriving of the profitable zoomers and extremists.

Attempting to get zoomers (and even older users, now that Discord has become embedded so deeply in the place of what was forums and IRC just five or six years ago) to use something that isn't within the trend of a big company, or hasn't been endorsed by a popular Internet figure within one of the two extremist sides I mentioned in the previous paragraph, leads to a straight up "nope": probably because they know they can't have their opportunity for fame on that platform, and that it's not got all the fancy bullshit, unified culture and counter-convenience that Discord, Twitter and Reddit provide for them (which they complain about so much but yet do nothing about).

That unified culture (resulting in the same unoriginal memes and same unoriginal personalities everywhere one goes these days) and linking everyone together via recommendations and the like (creating the rat king phenomenon) is what killed everything. Originally that was scoffed at when forums and IRC were dominant but once Discord and Twitter took over it seems commercialist morals became the norm to the point "being different in a way that isn't attention seeking for likes/RTs/Discord server popularity by reposting fumo/whateveriscoolnow memes different" is considered wrong.

Also, with AI, I really hope it goes the way of this. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=wxgkkJOEHS4
 
  • Dumb
  • Like
  • Winner
Reactions: Wright, Chester Rigby, nah and 2 others
Sketch Turner said:
The sad thing is zoomers were born into all the social media shite, that's why they're all attention whoring sheep who literally do not know how to use a forum. Unfortunately older people are getting more angry with the state of the internet and younger people are not really showing any signs of becoming more than either "4chan-esque edgelord neo-Nazi" or "Tumblresque furry troon" these days: the current setup the world is going encourages the demolishing of those who grew up with the early days from existing and the thriving of the profitable zoomers and extremists.

Attempting to get zoomers (and even older users, now that Discord has become embedded so deeply in the place of what was forums and IRC just five or six years ago) to use something that isn't within the trend of a big company, or hasn't been endorsed by a popular Internet figure within one of the two extremist sides I mentioned in the previous paragraph, leads to a straight up "nope": probably because they know they can't have their opportunity for fame on that platform, and that it's not got all the fancy bullshit, unified culture and counter-convenience that Discord, Twitter and Reddit provide for them (which they complain about so much but yet do nothing about).

That unified culture (resulting in the same unoriginal memes and same unoriginal personalities everywhere one goes these days) and linking everyone together via recommendations and the like (creating the rat king phenomenon) is what killed everything. Originally that was scoffed at when forums and IRC were dominant but once Discord and Twitter took over it seems commercialist morals became the norm to the point "being different in a way that isn't attention seeking for likes/RTs/Discord server popularity by reposting fumo/whateveriscoolnow memes different" is considered wrong.

Also, with AI, I really hope it goes the way of this. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=wxgkkJOEHS4
Click to expand...
in 2015 IRC networks like freenode and efnet were already dead. I can attest to that. Nowadays they're practically defunct. Most use services like rizon to get warez. That's it pretty much.
 
  • Like
Reactions: Sketch Turner
Maurice Caine said:
in 2015 IRC networks like freenode and efnet were already dead. I can attest to that. Nowadays they're practically defunct. Most use services like rizon to get warez. That's it pretty much.
Click to expand...
Absolute shame. Associating obsolete internet tech with piracy just feels wrong, probably because I know exactly how the mainstream media will treat it, and pretty sure they have already...

I guess the differing attitudes over time, commercialism of the internet, the current generation essentially being "born" into said commercialism of the web meaning no true replenishment of the old web as anything but a pseudonostalgic curiosity to some weirdos (which shits up the actual oldbies' community as they are expected to deal with the commercialism: some embrace it, some don't)... Yeah.

I see so many posts on old tech forums about Discord on ancient hardware. Dunno why people of this generation want to use a platform that is totally broken on modern Firefox (try copypasting any text, it has been like this since 2016) let alone anything older than three Chrome versions ago, heh. Guess no one actually cares about morality because commercialism ate up their brains so much.
 
No one's posted this yet so:
Personally I think the idea of a functional-only internet sounds good, on paper at least. Remember: who'd be running it?
 
The Empirical Bogey said:
No one's posted this yet so:
Personally I think the idea of a functional-only internet sounds good, on paper at least. Remember: who'd be running it?
Click to expand...

What a bunch of absolute faff. Who actually fucking thinks that rich people are all these special enlightened beings that devote all their time to quiet research and are completely immune from distraction? Oh yeah they're so pissed off by distraction that they're gonna create a proto-university special secret club internet, all because they are super seriously annoyed by the plebs' tendency to be human and get distracted by shiny flashes and colors!

Rich people cock about just as much as anyone else and this video makes them all sound like a bunch of university professors with the personality of white paint. This video is literally plebian self-flagellation -- oh ho ho those tricky R I C H P E O P L E are totally definitely building a secret internet I just know it! They have magical powers that stop themselves from falling for T E M P T A T I O N S!
 
  • Agree
  • Mad at the Internet
Reactions: Maggots on a Train v2, Chester Rigby, Haffhart and 2 others
The globohomo artstyle and corporations being obsessively politically correct.
GlobohomoTOR.png
 
  • Feels
  • Like
Reactions: 888Flux, WalMart and Chester Rigby
@Sicklick can't quote you, so...
Btw, DDOS is just sending so many requests that the server gets overloaded. So pretty much anything you can connect to you can DDOS (or try to), except for CJDNS because it takes more resources to send data than to relay data. But other than that, no network technology is immune to DDOS.
Click to expand...
Could you at least make it expensive for people to DDOS, by requiring proof of work to connect, or to join a network?
 
  • Like
Reactions: Chester Rigby
The current direction that Google and co are taking the internet is going to make it hell to anyone who refuses to use their platforms. Using anything other than a Chromium based browser or Firefox is getting harder to use. For example with Seamonkey and Pale Moon sites like Youtube or Twitter are slow to load, some sites fail to load properly, and a few sites even crash the browser if you try to use them. Keeping in contact with people is a pain in the ass if you do not use Discord because to use Email "is to hard" for some apparently. I could go on but I think you can get the idea.
However there are perks about refusing to use things like Youtube, Reddit, Facebook, etc. For example my personal information is not yet on data broker sites, and people on IRC can be better to talk to than on places like Reddit.
 
  • Agree
  • Feels
  • Like
Reactions: Maggots on a Train v2, Pissmaster, Chester Rigby and 1 other person
Sketch Turner said:
The sad thing is zoomers were born into all the social media shite, that's why they're all attention whoring sheep who literally do not know how to use a forum. Unfortunately older people are getting more angry with the state of the internet and younger people are not really showing any signs of becoming more than either "4chan-esque edgelord neo-Nazi" or "Tumblresque furry troon" these days: the current setup the world is going encourages the demolishing of those who grew up with the early days from existing and the thriving of the profitable zoomers and extremists.

Attempting to get zoomers (and even older users, now that Discord has become embedded so deeply in the place of what was forums and IRC just five or six years ago) to use something that isn't within the trend of a big company, or hasn't been endorsed by a popular Internet figure within one of the two extremist sides I mentioned in the previous paragraph, leads to a straight up "nope": probably because they know they can't have their opportunity for fame on that platform, and that it's not got all the fancy bullshit, unified culture and counter-convenience that Discord, Twitter and Reddit provide for them (which they complain about so much but yet do nothing about).

That unified culture (resulting in the same unoriginal memes and same unoriginal personalities everywhere one goes these days) and linking everyone together via recommendations and the like (creating the rat king phenomenon) is what killed everything. Originally that was scoffed at when forums and IRC were dominant but once Discord and Twitter took over it seems commercialist morals became the norm to the point "being different in a way that isn't attention seeking for likes/RTs/Discord server popularity by reposting fumo/whateveriscoolnow memes different" is considered wrong.

Also, with AI, I really hope it goes the way of this. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=wxgkkJOEHS4
Click to expand...
Can't help but think your generalization of zoomers is insanely autistic, lmao man.. Tell you what, I am most definitely a zoomer, by any definition. I know I'm hardly like that at all. The internet culture is more unified than ever before, sure, but I still know plenty in my age group who stray far from such groupthink, and can actually do more internet shit than you think. Can't call it Generation Based but there's always plenty of outliers to such a large group.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back