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[–] [email protected] 43 points 1 month ago (4 children)

the internet was awesome for like ... twenty years. thirty if you count the era where people mostly communicated through newsgroups and such. it feels like the enshittification was so sudden...

[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 month ago (2 children)

It's been going to shit since like, 2015? I think that's about when ad blockers became a necessity to just read any website on the internet. Maybe a few years before that.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago
  1. Maybe 2009~2009. Mobile devices lowering the bar for entry has been apocalyptic.
[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 month ago (1 children)

It’s not an internet thing, or even a technology thing. This is an example of the general debasement of society wrought through half a century of rampant sociopathic neoliberal shitfuckery.

One place I’d like to see this start to be corrected, is treating what is currently understood to be intellectual property as the intrinsically abundant resource it is, instead of the artificially scarce, zero-sum concept it’s currently encrusted as.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago

Looking back now there were some signs but boy that escalated quickly