Why the Internet isn't fun anymore
newyorker.com
newyorker.com
Aka money/greed, control freaks & their algorithms. That is what has turned present-day internet into crap.
(feel free to include AI ;-)
The nice corners are those where above factors don't apply.
Many private communities and discord servers have replaced communities that once existed on traditional social media platforms.
It’s not less fun in general, all the life was sucked out of big social media and new internet users saw that and decided to move to closed platforms like discord
Just add "site:reddit.com" to the end of your search query. Nothing SEOs (like me) can do about that, Google will only return results from reddit.com. I, personally, find it really funny when the top result is some spam coupon site with "[search query] reddit" as the page title. Google really should be smarter than that.
HN is a rare gem and must be protected