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A collection of some classic Lemmy memes for your enjoyment
As a webdev I feel like the whole internet is dying. Everything is an app now, fully controlled by google, so privacy goes out the window, and none of it is searchable anyway as genAI made search engines toast. And everyone and their cat just seem go around blocking entire /8's willy-nilly breaking the whole global network concept... Does anyone have any tips which career path to switch to?
The internet has been 'app-ified'. For many, if not most, people the internet is a collection of apps. Mail, Instagram, Facebook, TikTok. The time of webrings, forums and indexes are long gone.
Sometimes I feel blessed to have been around when the internet was like the wild west, everything open to everyone. Now gatekeepers are everywhere. Your success on-line determined by the algos from multi-billion dollar companies.
Play us all off keyboard cat
Play our song just one more time
What we miss is the analog version of the internet. The easier video became the worse it got.
I was an Angry Video Game Nerd fan back when he started in 2006. Early youtube, with its 500 character limit and 5 minute limited videos was a different place all together. Fun silly videos and quick 'angry' retro gaming reviews.
Most people back then didn't have any production values. They were just people talking into a cheap Webcam or cheap camera and uploading it. What they lacked in production value they made up in authenticity and sincerity. They weren't working an algorithm, they were truly speaking from the heart.
It’s sad to think about the optimism people used to have for the internet vs. what it turned into.
I think maybe back then we all knew it was going to become a corporate ad-ridden tracking nightmare in some capacity. That is why we remember it so fondly perhaps. Places like lemmy/wikis and the odd ole phpbb forum still running still give off at least a bit of the old internet vibe.
I wish that was the only problem with the Internet. I don't think many people realized it would revive fascism and lead to the death of democracy.
Well, the cyberpunk authors seem to have noticed.
They knew
Yeah, social media has seemingly broken society.
Then people came along and ruined it.
Infinite scroll is suited for current events putting negative pressures against content creation. Content creation became an economy. Commoditization of content sucked the life out of it all.
And porn... definitely porn
Cat videos, porn and shitposts are the pillars holding the internet up. We lose one of them and it all crumbles.
Porn is the first canary to die.
Not just a tool for monitoring, but a tool for propaganda delivery and indoctrination for anyone with a message and cash to burn.
Proper journalism costs money and requires focused attention to consume and metabolize. Propaganda is shiny, sweet, goes down easy and it's always free.
I remember times before cat videos. Times when even porn was scarce on the Internet. Those were the times of technical discussions. Without crazy religious fanatics, without rabid political idiots, without degeneratively stupid kids.
Those were the times...
Even in those times these things you discuss were going on in the internet. There’s always been idiots on the internet even in the early days like Curtis Yarvin.
I miss pre-normie internet.
ASL?
18/f/cali
I remember asking this in a Discord server (ugh) a couple of years ago. The response? "Can you please refrain from asking such personal questions in this server."
I miss the old days. Also fuck Discord.
400 years old / Unicorn / A Faeric Kingdom
No, I can hear. Why?
Lol. Ok I’ll try: A/S/L?
14/f/cali u?
🚩 nice try FBI agent.
From cats to the collapse of society.
I think the cats are proud
Cats pushed it off the edge.
"It" being the health of our collective unconscious
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I really liked that guy in Band of Brothers.
And before that it was developed together with the military. It seems we've gone full circle.
The military helped develop the technology, but they run their own "Internet" networks that are completely segregated and independent from the public Internet.
They helped with protocols and standards and such more than anything else. Military interest in Internet technologies relates to the ability to have redundant, interconnected sites so that if one site goes dark for any reason, the other sites don't lose their connection to eachother as a result. Obviously this world help with keeping the military operating and orders flowing in the event of an international incident where some of their sites are taken down or otherwise disabled.
The public Internet, while following similar models, isn't nearly as decentralized as you may expect. Almost all of the connectivity and data is warehoused in datacenters at, or near Internet exchange locations, or "IX"es. IXes and their locations are not secret and taking out a few IX sites is a good military tactic to disrupt communications, at least for the civilians in a country, which would create significant issues trying to keep everyone calm and safe. Almost all telecommunications today are Internet based, regardless of all other factors. The only somewhat decentralized civilian communication technology is radio, specifically broadcast radio (like FM), but even getting a message to an emergency broadcast FM station would be a challenge if the Internet was disabled, taking out phones (both cellular and landline), and all data communication. The only way to get an emergency message to an emergency broadcast station in that circumstance, would be to physically send someone there with a military communications system (generally two way radio), to relay the messages for broadcast to the public. There's enough FM stations and emergency broadcast stations that effectively disabling all of them is strategically difficult.
All of your communications, whether landline, cellular or Internet is basically all routed through your local IX before it can go anywhere; so if that goes down, you can kiss all of your methods of communication goodbye, unless, of course, you're a qualified amateur radio operator (or HAM).
Ham radio has a bit of an image problem as an obsolete hobby, but it really isn't. There's continual efforts to develop new and interesting wireless technology to run on the radio bands. Hams also have a network of repeaters and radio relays that can be brought online in geographically diverse locations for the purposes of enabling communication when commercial networks (like cellphones) become unavailable. Hams have saved lives and relayed critical information to and from first responders in natural disasters like hurricanes and tornados when all other communications have been disrupted.
But if you don't know how to use a radio, like a ham radio, then even having the gear is useless. The best way to understand enough to be competent in using a radio when it matters is to get certified. Unless you have, or seek that certification before there's a major incident, natural or otherwise, you may be shit out of luck when it happens.
...a gif? No no no no, a masterpiece like that needs the full-length visual and audio experience!
No arguments here :D
Cause everything apart from western civilisation isn't civilisation?
Every corner of the world is in a way suffering from war, corruption, or civil unrest, not just "The West"
