Wow, that "Dead Internet Theory" keeps getting more and more Real with each passing day.
I sometimes think of this as a "slo-mo train wreck" version of the burning of the Library of Alexandria.
I sometimes think of this as a "slo-mo train wreck" version of the burning of the Library of Alexandria.
similar attitudes about the decay of civilization occured with the inventions of
- the internet/original search engines - tv - radio - the printed word (frickin books(!!!!))
they were all supposed to make people stupider because we wouldnt have to keep as much information in our heads. see the pattern?
My point was more along the lines of "we're about to ruin a high-quality resource (the Internet) that we carefully built over decades".
I think your response is valid -- we'll do what we've always done: adapt and move on.
However, that doesn't change the fact that, just like TV, the Internet will be even more chock-full of garbage, with an abysmal SNR.
I agree but would say many people have noticed this over the years... successive waves of normies (aol endless summer being one famous one i rememeber, ya granny getting a smartphone in the last ten years being the most recent) substantively change the character of this once possibly great place