Maybe it’s a good thing if the Internet eats itself.
If only we can somehow figure out how to bring back something like the web of the ’90s
Federation, mostly. Places like Lemmy and Mastodon aren’t obsessed with optimizing ad spend, so there’s a lot less incentive to enshittify.
I have high hopes
It mostly still exists, you just arent interacting with it.
I call it the side web.
It feels like sneaking along on the shoulder of the information super highway.
Unfortunately no one else is interacting with it either. I miss the old style forums, and most of the ones I used to frequent are still online. But they all haven’t had any real activity in years, so they aren’t really usable anymore unfortunately.
YouTubers are doing webrings again, I shit you not. I love it.
Ok that’s cool
The zero click searches just haven’t been monetized yet. Don’t worry they are working on it
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Well the internet had a good run up to about 2008
Reminder: the Internet has its roots from ARPANET which is designed to survive an atomic blast and openly available to learn. A dead web business model won’t kill the technology that allows humans to instantly communicate. If anything a new internet may come of this once the money dries up.
Yep there is nothing stopping new web sites coming online. It’s just hard to find them. Guess what was also hard in the early Internet days? Finding them. Web rings may make a big comeback.
Long live the Fediverse?
Good?
Not that I want more AI, but killing the internets business model can only be good for the future of the internet imo.
I don’t think we will like the new model though.
I mean IDK what it will be, but it will be implemented by tech bros working for tech giants.
Google is in an interesting predicament. Their ad service brings in so much revenue, but it’s based on search sending traffic to places where those ads are consumed.
Boost search through Overviews and you’re limiting the effectiveness and reach of your ad service. And to top it off, your search needs content to ingest and remain relevant. But if the ad revenue drops off to websites, they go out of business, so search has less stuff to ingest.
It’s like a reverse flywheel, where each part is working to harm the other part. People have been pointing this out for the last couple of years, but Google search just keeps adding more to Overviews and choking off the flow.
And before you say “good, I hate ads,” most of the internet today and its services are paid by ad revenue changing hands. That includes ISPs that host the Fediverse, networking and storage gear makers, pretty much everything to do with open source, and so many jobs that exist to keep the whole thing humming so we can enjoy cat memes.
If Google (or someone like Cloudflare) doesn’t figure out a way to keep the money flowing, we may be watching a sea shift in how the internet has worked in the last 30 years.
I think Google can never really hope to disrupt itself. The entire company is oriented towards selling those ads. So any other internal division that tries to eliminate the ads division is going to have a very uphill battle.
IMO the industry is ripening for disruption and someone will come along with a new idea for how to incentivize content generation and it will very likely continue to involve some heavy commercial marketing.
Get a real job.
Go back to watching Fox News, boomer.
Since when have CEOs ever done any real work?
Dinghy exactly. The CEO is whining about something nobody wanted, that’s maybe going to go away, and someone gets upset at you saying so? Makes no sense
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The wording you chose did not adequately reflect that you were referring to the CEO.
Rather, it sounds like you are criticizing the OP for sharing an article you do not understand or agree with, as it invited no discourse and only served to criticize, similar to the comments regularly posted below news articles.
I do agree fully with you that CEOs rarely do work of any value, and their role is basically to siphon money from an organization like the parasites they are.
