The internet isn't dying

There's been quite a lot of wallowing about the state of the internet lately. The internet is apperantly rapidly getting worse, and if possible we should search for a alternative, whatever that would be. I don't really get this sentiment, and I think it's because I'm a bit of a zoomer. The internet has always been corporatized and kinda shitty. I do remember surfing the web in the 00's, and that time was quite swell. Things weren't so serious, and I never even thought about the financial situation of the sites I browsed. Might have been because I was a pre-teen... However, during my more formative years ~2015-2020 - it had turned to shit. Youtubers taking sponsors was routine, there was constant talk of the "adpocolypse", enshittification was rampant even if we didn't realize it yet. This channel of communication had very much shifted into a venue for bussiness. It used to cost to express oneself, then it started to cost to consume. I'm not making any arguments for or against this,…

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