I kind of like that TOR is a more primitive version of the web out of necessity (because having these fancy webpages with graphics and other shit to load would just take forever through an onion relay) but I kind of hate that it’s just damn hard to find working links to stuff and the association with the seedy underbelly and criminal enterprises of the internet. Also, I’ve been totally spoiled with my fast internet connection to the clearweb because I no longer have the patience to click on a link and wait for 20 minutes for it to finish loading.
I guess in the future there might be more of a reason for people to retreat from the clearweb, especially considering how shitty things are going in western politics right now.
This is what I’m afraid of happening if Linux got popular. I remember people saying the internet wouldn’t go to shit because it was decentralized and open.
I know I’ll get attacked mercilessly for this, but humanity has a way of fucking up the nicest things.
The internet hasn’t gone to shit. We can still make non-shitty, not-for-profit, not garbage things on it. You’re literally using such a thing.
But we have Lemmy, the Fediverse, qBitTorrent, Tor, I2P, GrapheneOS and the Armada of GNU/Linux distros. Look at Android, as long as something is FOSS, someone will take the rubbish out and make something usable, not only GrapheneOS, but CalyxOS, DivestOS, eOS and whatnot. The internet is pretty good, if you know what to look for and where to ask.
The internet went to shit because users flocked to sites that broke the unwritten rules of the internet.
That big pink blob is just advertising, tons and tons of advertising
There’s something so cozy about late 90s web pages
The cozy part comes from the coffee you made waiting for the page to load.
Hitting the power button on the family computer then putting together a snack while the computer fully boots.
I think about this from time to time, how it was normal to take 5-10 minutes for a computer to boot up at one point in time. Now my PC is up in seconds, and that’s from a cold start.
Yeah, I remember getting a newer laptop in my late teens and having this moment of “I don’t have time to make a snack…” For better and for worse the wait times we used to fill with little comforts just went poof
To think, we all thought that email for a free cup holder, which opened the disc tray, was a joke… If only we knew…
common mistake, you’re supposed to hit the TURBO button too
“mainstream users” ? Wut
Yeah, why would that be a bad thing. I thought the internet was for everyone.
They actually called it internet 2.0 back then
Web 3.0 is also already here, I don’t think that they fixed many of the bugs.
May I introduce you to SCION future internet architecture
For the last time, you are not obliged to interact with corporate silo media.
wake me up when September ends
Enshittification is a fucking stupid word.
