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The Fediverse Isn’t the Future. It’s the Present We’ve Been Denied. (www.joanwestenberg.com)

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[-] ghostrider2112@lemmy.world 8 points 4 months ago

I was speaking more to the early days of the internet. You had to be relatively smart, and determined to get on it.

[-] nulluser@lemmy.world 6 points 4 months ago

I'll never forget when the AOLers started showing up.

[-] ghostrider2112@lemmy.world 4 points 4 months ago

yeah, they sure ruined newsgroups…

[-] ArcturusRoot@lemmy.world 7 points 4 months ago

Eternal September

[-] ghostrider2112@lemmy.world 5 points 4 months ago

Yup. I’ll admit, I didn’t foresee AI coming along and finding a way to make the quality of discourse even worse

[-] grrgyle@slrpnk.net 3 points 4 months ago

God I feel so bad for people even just trying to learn stuff online now.

10 to 20 years ago we had a lot less content, but when you did find a hit on your search, you could be much more confident it contained meaningful information. Rather than just the official documentation repackaged across 10 different "articles."

[-] ghostrider2112@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago

Yeah, no kidding! Plus, in addition to shitty results, the likely inaccurate AI summary to further confuse you.

[-] grrgyle@slrpnk.net 2 points 4 months ago

God yeah, I'll be like half way through an article before realising it's just padding out some very surface level details about what I'm looking up. Like the top 3 interesting things about the topic, but never an actual novel, like, human take.