It's over. The internet culture of the 20th and early 21st century has been appropriated for profit.

No it's not, and no it hasn't. That old Internet is still there, you just stopped going to it.

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You are not under attack. It’s just someone disagreeing with you. Please keep things civil.

	▲	rdevilla 2 days ago \| parent [-]
		Where is the incivility? If anything it's coming from those who project their simplistic ideas of others unto the complexity of others' persons to pigeonhole them into their own idiosyncratic mental categories.

josteink 2 days ago | parent | prev [-]

We built it on enthusiasm for enthusiasts and for that reason alone, it became something great.

Then they stole it all for profit.

Probably not the first time in history this has happened.

	▲	izzydata 2 days ago \| parent \| next [-]
		The amounts of times someone invented something that was important to them and then never make any money from it only for some other entity to make tons of money from it is way too high.
	▲	recursive 2 days ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		And hopefully not the last