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I'm with you. I used to love being in on the bleeding edge of technology. Now it just disappoints me. Enshittifcation is the norm. Instead of "how can we make this game more fun," it's all about "how can we wring more profit out of this," and gathering personal data for marketing is a favorite method. I never thought I'd become a Luddite, but here I am.
I don't want to come off as some sort of luddite, but tech is starting to become dreadful rather than exciting. It's less "what cool things can we do" and more "how can govs and corpos surveil, control, and extract more money from everyone."
It's difficult to pin an exact time, but (aside from medical advances) I would say that technology peaked about 10 years ago in terms of advancements still representing a benefit to the average person. "Advancements" since then have been getting increasingly detrimental.
Same. I remember how everything seemed amazing and the future was exciting, you never knew what the next big and amazing thing would be. Then the next big amazing thing turned out to be facebook, google, advertising and personal data harvesting and after that everything has been complete shit.
But thats why the internet revival thing, is a thing. Thats why the amount of IRC users have started to go up. Thats why more and more people are looking into self hosting things... I'm all for that sort of stuff.