▲ 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
[–] 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