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What doyaaaa miss from the old the internet. When it was real. (piefed.social)

submitted 1 month ago by Cherry@piefed.social to c/askuk@feddit.uk

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I’ll start. Chuck Norris jokes!

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[–] Illecors@lemmy.cafe 13 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Authenticity. Everything somehow feels like it's for sale and nothing elsw. Even open source software seems to get polluted. There's nothing wrong with making a living - why are you trying to hide it, package it in some backwards way? There still are a few bastions left, but I'm not holding my breath.

[–] mbirth@lemmy.ml 7 points 1 month ago

Everything somehow feels like it’s for sale and nothing elsw.

YES! I miss the personal websites that people actually paid their hobby money for to host them. And which they cared for: hand-crafted HTML, barely any JavaScript, no cookies, etc.

Nowadays, a lot of websites are huge monsters full of useless information and fillers but with a lot of ads. Similar to how so many people post 10+ minute YouTube videos about how to switch a light bulb - but then put 10 ad breaks into it. Everything has to create an income. Awful!

[–] lerba@sopuli.xyz 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

This was named enshittification, and it's truly everywhere now.