remember when the internet was fun and full of possibilities? yknow how now it's a miserable hell? reminder that what happened is that capitalism colonized it and now it's just as shitty as everything else capitalism's got its hooks in
like. seo, algorithms, targeted advertising: these are all DESIGNED to keep you from finding some weirdo's X-Files fan page or geocities star trek web ring. I would 1000x rather find those than tweets from the u.s. president, yet here we are #thankscapitalism
@skirts I still think this is just the Eternal September thing, especially since it has happened before on NNTP. It's no longer just a bunch of geeks using it, the general population is here, and turns out that what they are interested in is entertainment, politics and shopping. Who would have guessed.
@duck57 @deshipu @skirts Which are all parts of natural human communication. By wilfully avoiding them, it left a big hole in the way things could be discussed. This and more meant things got discussed in what other channels were available, but not best suited to them.
As best I can tell, all online discussion methods develop on demand. There's no over-arching design criteria for what makes a healthy forum/medium for nuanced discussion.
@deshipu @skirts When read in conjunction with @Sci’s reply, perhaps the early programmers made it deliberately inaccessible to keep off the gossip, shopping, and political talk as long as possible.