▲ 19 ▼ Gfycat.com shuts down on September 1 and all Gifs will be taken down - gHacks Tech News (www.ghacks.net) submitted 3 years ago by withersailor@aussie.zone to c/technology@beehaw.org 30 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] heartlessevil@lemmy.one 10 points 3 years ago (3 children) Wow the internet really took a nosedive the last few months. permalink fedilink source hideshow 6 child comments replies: [–] z500@startrek.website 6 points 3 years ago (2 children) I like to think of it as a reset to early 2000s internet, which was basically the golden age. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] sunbeam60@lemmy.one 4 points 3 years ago I hope you’re right. Everything was a lot more wild. You’d discover a blog through some link and feel like an adventurer explorer a blank part of the map. It was much more fun. permalink fedilink source parent [–] Piers@beehaw.org 0 points 3 years ago (1 child) Yeah, it seems like people made the internet something valuable, a bunch of commercial businesses turned up to take the reins so they could harvest hat value for wealth for investors, it's reached a point where that juice is no longer worth the squeeze for them and we'll go back to a phase where the progress and generation of value will revert back to regular people again for a while. Likely that balance will then tip back towards profitability again and the cycle will start anew. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] brandoncarey@social.vivaldi.net 1 point 3 years ago @Piers @z500 I remember in the early days of commercialization of the interwebs, the capitalists just could *not* wrap their heads around the idea of *sharing*. Legalities aside, putting music or art or whatever that you had spent money and time on, and then just... putting it out there for anyone was so foreign to them. permalink fedilink source parent [–] sznio@beehaw.org 3 points 3 years ago (1 child) Tech bubble is over. Let's hope the old web returns. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] fades@beehaw.org 1 point 3 years ago I don’t believe that permalink fedilink source parent [–] OneRedFox@beehaw.org 1 point 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago) You know, come to think of it, the internet has been oddly stable for the past decade. Prior to modern social media, sites used to come and go all the time. I had to switch forums twice because the ones I was using shut down. Same for my image hosting sites and flash game sites. We were honestly due for a major shake up. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] z500@startrek.website 6 points 3 years ago (2 children) I like to think of it as a reset to early 2000s internet, which was basically the golden age. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] sunbeam60@lemmy.one 4 points 3 years ago I hope you’re right. Everything was a lot more wild. You’d discover a blog through some link and feel like an adventurer explorer a blank part of the map. It was much more fun. permalink fedilink source parent [–] Piers@beehaw.org 0 points 3 years ago (1 child) Yeah, it seems like people made the internet something valuable, a bunch of commercial businesses turned up to take the reins so they could harvest hat value for wealth for investors, it's reached a point where that juice is no longer worth the squeeze for them and we'll go back to a phase where the progress and generation of value will revert back to regular people again for a while. Likely that balance will then tip back towards profitability again and the cycle will start anew. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] brandoncarey@social.vivaldi.net 1 point 3 years ago @Piers @z500 I remember in the early days of commercialization of the interwebs, the capitalists just could *not* wrap their heads around the idea of *sharing*. Legalities aside, putting music or art or whatever that you had spent money and time on, and then just... putting it out there for anyone was so foreign to them. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] sunbeam60@lemmy.one 4 points 3 years ago I hope you’re right. Everything was a lot more wild. You’d discover a blog through some link and feel like an adventurer explorer a blank part of the map. It was much more fun. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Piers@beehaw.org 0 points 3 years ago (1 child) Yeah, it seems like people made the internet something valuable, a bunch of commercial businesses turned up to take the reins so they could harvest hat value for wealth for investors, it's reached a point where that juice is no longer worth the squeeze for them and we'll go back to a phase where the progress and generation of value will revert back to regular people again for a while. Likely that balance will then tip back towards profitability again and the cycle will start anew. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] brandoncarey@social.vivaldi.net 1 point 3 years ago @Piers @z500 I remember in the early days of commercialization of the interwebs, the capitalists just could *not* wrap their heads around the idea of *sharing*. Legalities aside, putting music or art or whatever that you had spent money and time on, and then just... putting it out there for anyone was so foreign to them. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] brandoncarey@social.vivaldi.net 1 point 3 years ago @Piers @z500 I remember in the early days of commercialization of the interwebs, the capitalists just could *not* wrap their heads around the idea of *sharing*. Legalities aside, putting music or art or whatever that you had spent money and time on, and then just... putting it out there for anyone was so foreign to them. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] sznio@beehaw.org 3 points 3 years ago (1 child) Tech bubble is over. Let's hope the old web returns. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] fades@beehaw.org 1 point 3 years ago I don’t believe that permalink fedilink source parent
[–] OneRedFox@beehaw.org 1 point 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago) You know, come to think of it, the internet has been oddly stable for the past decade. Prior to modern social media, sites used to come and go all the time. I had to switch forums twice because the ones I was using shut down. Same for my image hosting sites and flash game sites. We were honestly due for a major shake up. permalink fedilink source parent