@Darriengineer Except all the good stuff that used...

Except all the good stuff that used to be there is mostly still there. You just can't find it through Google.

This is one of the reasons I am so religious about using a bookmarker. Once I lose a URL, at this point I have to assume there's no search on earth that will ever bring it back up.

@danluu

Like 1 Dec 2023 at 20:58 | Wall-to-wall | Open on universeodon.com

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Darrien Glasser

@siderea @danluu I dunno, especially with the majority of internet traffic being consolidated across like 10 domains I don’t feel like that same level of diversity, of creativity, of authentic sets of folks posting exists to the same degree it did even a decade ago.

I feel like this consolidation has vastly decreased the quality of the independent web as we know it. It is significantly less interesting than it was as I remember it before consolidation

1 Dec 2023 at 21:05 | Open on mstdn.social

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@Darriengineer This reads like one of these "Kids these days..."-posts, but it still feels correct.
I think what @siderea meant was that the old content is still there. What you're saying is that new content of the same quality isn't being produced.
@danluu

1 Dec 2023 at 21:16 | Open on dice.camp

Siderea, Sibylla Bostoniensis

@Darriengineer Oh I can believe it. Part of the problem is even if there is exactly as much quality new content being generated, it's lost in an ever-increasing flood of sewage.

But I also think people who would otherwise be inclined to generate quality new content are less likely to do so in the context of an ever-increasing flood of sewage. For a variety of reasons.

@danluu

1 Dec 2023 at 21:17 | Open on universeodon.com