Why? Serious question. The internet was a mistake.

How can your question be serious if you already decided the internet was a mistake? I don't think it was. Far from it.

SecretDreams 5 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Good things get tainted over time. The internet was a good thing. Today, not so much. It's probably a net negative for most youth in terms of cognitive development. Aka a drag on the future of humanity.

Maybe it could be good again, but not on the path it's on.

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forgetfreeman 8 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

What part of an endless sea of SEO spam, AI slop, malware, polarized astroturf, and addictive-by-design walled gardens strikes you as the win? Seriously, where is the win?

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gchamonlive 7 hours ago | parent | next [-]

But the internet is so much more than that, isn't it?

	▲	recursive 7 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		It used to be.
	▲	forgetfreeman 6 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		It really isn't. It was so much more than that but a couple decades of "innovation" and here we are.

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lcnPylGDnU4H9OF 7 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Honestly, some of the shit with ClawdBot^W MoltBot^W OpenClaw and molt.church and molt.book has been some quality entertainment, enabled largely by the Internet. And it's AI slop but that only seems to matter when one of them gets miffed about its PR being rejected and posts an unhinged blog post about the maintainer who rejected said PR. And in a "comedy equals tragedy plus time" way, it's pretty easy to laugh at that, too.

	▲	forgetfreeman 6 hours ago \| parent [-]
		You know there's individuals who will unironically defend any dark pattern one cares to point to so your take here is pretty unsurprising. I feel like this is getting excited over finding a kernel of undigested corn in a random turd.