i just can't convey the frustration and sorrow that it's been to grow up at first without the internet and then watching it bloom into this useful, fun, connecting force you sometimes spent time on, only for it to degrade into this constant oppressive waste of time and energy where people are constantly pumping out algorithmically designed content for max algorithmic appeal and even the most simple search generates either no results or an infinite abyss of ai generated slop none of which is usable or correct. we briefly had a library of alexandria and then fed it into a paper shredder so advertisers could sell a random mash of pulp back to us at a premium.
it's funny looking back at this post specifically because shortly after i first posted it, it got reposted to reddit and most of the responses were "this is a rosy view of the past internet at best, things aren't that bad now" which, if you really think the current internet has produced safer conditions for children and minorities, i beg heavily to fucking differ. but then it got reposted to that same reddit a few months ago and the response was universally in agreement. i think it's been that fast of a noticeable decline. just interesting to note.
these tags are so real.
i also can't put my finger on why that is.
