Just a bunch of autonomous, non-thinking algorithms in data centers scattered across the country farming for rage bait/clicks. It’s all propped up by unthinkable amounts of capital which drops people’s consciousness in to one liberal bucket to craft a reality which makes them the most bigoted humans on earth. Incredible work
The internet is such a fucking dead end
Capitalism took something that should have been a human-made wonder of the world and turned it into a conveyor belt of hateful slop. Obviously there are still good parts of it (like here) but I feel it's causing a lot of psychic damage.
I miss the old internet. When everything was just fucking chaos. Search engines were absolute trash, and it was frustrating, but also it was great. Search something one day, completely different results tomorrow. You never knew what you were going to find. Fucking web rings. Websites with graphic and UX design that was a legitimate cognitohazard. Just some of the weirdest shit you ever saw. Better times...
Well, "thanks" to the gippities, we have most of that back now. Time to reopen DMOZ.