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TheCableGuy08 wrote: Mon Dec 01, 2025 6:07 pm

the more cancerous parts of internet culture

i agree, however there is only ONE thing i don’t miss about the old web at all (and pardon my french): the casual use of words like “cancer”, “autistic”, “retarded”, and racial slurs among users to describe things they don’t like. that language can stay languishing in the past where it belongs

i agree, however there is only ONE thing i don’t miss about the old web at all (and pardon my french): the casual use of words like “cancer”, “autistic”, “retarded”, and racial slurs among users to describe things they don’t like. that language can stay languishing in the past where it belongs

I absolutely agree with you. Back then the internet was pretty much a wild west, so that often meant that people could and did get away with being insensitive pricks. That's the only aspect I don't like. As an autistic person I hate when people use it as an insult.

My opinion on the internet now: The good stuff is drowned in an ocean of bad stuff.

Right now we have an absolute tsunami of AI-generated content, in the form of websites, art, and videos. It became hard to use search engines to find meaningful content when the first 10 pages are AI websites or other generic crap that you didn't ask for.

In the past you could land on forums when looking for stuff on a search engine, now it's really hard unless you look for it specifically, which is probably a reason why they are less popular nowadays. That and Facebook / Twitter obviously.

I hate how everything is monetized and full of ads, I hate every YouTubers having to rely on sponsors for their income because the greedy company who makes billions doesn't compensate their creators as they should despite the money they make.

I feel like the internet is becoming the movie Idiocracy where trash (but here it's AI slop) overfills the world (the internet) and people become more and more stupid, as people's attention spans go down and down because of addictions to more and more predatory social media algorithms...

The bright side is that communities of good people still exist, there are still websites that care about your privacy, that don't try to make money off of you at every opportunity by selling your data. The Indie Web, on places like Neocities and Nekoweb is one example. Those still exist but my concern is that they are getting harder to find and that normal people might never hear about them unless we start talking about it. Some YouTubers are talking about it which is good, but I hope more of them will.

The clippy movement shows that people are tired of this crap but they don't know what to do about it, they never leave their centralized websites to go explore the web and participate in or create other community spaces. And this is why these companies are getting away with screwing us over, there's no competition anymore.

As for new tech, I think phones are all the same boring bricks now, but I don't really care that much because to me it's just a tool and I barely use mine. I do love that portable consoles are getting more powerful which means you can now play console games on the go, which I dreamed of as a kid. One thing I miss is translucent tech and more edgy designs.