Technology

I feel like there has been waves of losses.

• Web 2.0 upgrades made everyone feel like they had to have a shiny polished site. We lost a lot of fun amateurs.

Once apps started getting pushed websites started to get abandoned/empty. everything from shopping to small games. I shouldn't need an app for the coffee shop.

Bots and bad search operators made looking and finding a chore.

Insta killed blogs, suddenly everyone wanted a insta or YT brand rather than a blog/rss

• Everything became sponsored =- say i wanted to find out how to polish my boots, the first 3 pages and everything everywhere suddenly tries to sell me boots.

This is why i no longer enjoy the internet. I know i sound old man yelling at cloud.

2nd to last paragraph:

And this isn’t some anti-AI screed — I’m all-in on agentic software engineering!

The internet is in small communities we shitpost in along the way

The only thing that feels akin to early internet to me is the chat in video games. I miss being able to moderate things with my own brain thx.

Me either. Feels weird to be complaining about it on the internet though. It's almost like the solution is self-evident. Oh, well. It'll come to me.

I only enjoy very specific hobby subs\forums. Beyond that you can't find anything because all the search engines rank to by ads. Looking for a real review is a joke, its all AI\bogus.

YT is getting worse w/ all the AI slop. I just stick to my channels that again are hobby/interests I have that haven't gone AI (yet).

I haven't been on FB for over 10 years, no IG, no tic flop, or other social media because its a nightmare.

there’s a typo at the end,

“These isolas are now much harder to find in the [pail] of slop, and I don’t see a way back.”

Why is this on the internet?