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 it's not capitalism, it's normies. the internet becoming more useful to ordinary, average, non-technical people (which was largely done by capitalist entities trying to make money, and is probably on the whole good) also made it so that weirdo content was massively swamped by content of interest to normal people
@skirts and the content of interest to normal people is national politics and interacting socially with people you know, under your real identity
@skirts there's still plenty of "weird" content out there to be found, and plenty of ways to block ads and publish weird things on the internet, but there just aren't as many weird people as normal people, and now that everyone's using the internet, you can't expect to see the good weird stuff
@skirts also, frankly, in my experience the number one thing making the internet a miserable hell is communities with authoritarian leftists - particular feminist women - finding ways to classify peoples' weird content as a type of oppression so they can feel good about calling for its removal