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[–] z500@startrek.website 6 points 3 years ago (3 children)

I like to think of it as a reset to early 2000s internet, which was basically the golden age.

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[–] 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.

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[–] 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.

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[–] 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.

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