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The Internet is Dying. We Can Still Stop It (news.itsfoss.com)

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A great article about the future of Internet concerning AI.

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[–] SoftestSapphic@lemmy.world 28 points 1 day ago

Save the planet.

Burn down a datacenter today! :3

[–] samus12345@sh.itjust.works 22 points 1 day ago

[–] SereneSadie@lemmy.myserv.one 6 points 1 day ago

No. Let it die.

[–] tym@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago

We're all far too dumb to be sharing our thoughts so widely and easily. The internet needs to go.

[–] mjr@infosec.pub 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Some good observations and some software suggestions, but I don't think all of them are good. I hate Anubis when I'm using an assisted accessible browser (that it locks out, always saying a solution is coming but it never has, which I'm pretty sure is illegal discrimination in some situations) and they really ought not recommend Proton without mentioning its chief supporting Trump and helping French police track climate activists.

Other tips, including Lemmy, are better.

[–] _cryptagion@anarchist.nexus 22 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Proton’s CEO does not support trump. And they didn’t help the French police, they were obligated to follow a legal order to turn over data to their own government.

Those are both gross misrepresentations of the truth, and you know good and well how dishonest you’re being. And before you get angry, I’m not writing this for you, I’m writing it for the people who don’t know that you’re knowingly spreading misinformation.

[–] AmbitiousProcess@piefed.social 12 points 1 day ago

A great Medium article on the topic that analyzes the entire situation: (coming to the conclusion that no, Proton does not really seem to be in favor of Trump/MAGA at all given their actual actions, and how the original statement was misinterpreted)

https://medium.com/@ovenplayer/does-proton-really-support-trump-a-deeper-analysis-and-surprising-findings-aed4fee4305e

[–] noretus@crazypeople.online -3 points 1 day ago

I'm all for internet "dying". Let it become a hostile environment filled with garbage and ads on the mainstream social media level. Hopefully people will get fed up with it and focus on real life again. Leave the dark corner of weird interfaces, console commands and modifications to nerds.

[+] ReCursing@feddit.uk -24 points 1 day ago (3 children)

The internet is not dying, and Ai is not evil

[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 11 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

I have to agree.

The internet is not dying--corporate-ran social media sites are--and AI can't be evil since it is an inanimate thing that is niether good or evil. Those who sell AI are evil.

[–] Eldritch@piefed.world 24 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Whatever you call it, the Internet is changing and enshitifying. For many it's the death of what it was. The new restrictions and push for chat control/censorship.

AI may just be a tool. And people may be over reacting. But it's inarguable it's being overwhelming leveraged by abject evil.

[–] _cryptagion@anarchist.nexus 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

The internet, in its various forms, has died several times now, and it will die and be replaced with something else probably uncountable times in the future.

[–] Eldritch@piefed.world 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

All true, but also all the more reason to acknowledge what we've lost. With an eye to the future to make sure that the enshitified centralized internet is one of them.

[–] _cryptagion@anarchist.nexus 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I don't really see the inevitable passing of this internet as a sad thing, really. each time the internet has died, it has been replaced by something a little better. with how bad this one has gotten, with a whole laundry list of enshitification from constant tracking to intrusive and malicious advertisements, I think it's far past time for the internet to die again and give us something fresh.

[–] Eldritch@piefed.world 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Honest question, I'm just trying to understand here. How long have you used the internet? That could definitely color a lot of different perceptions.

I suppose the best way to put it is that I've had the privilege of access to the Internet. In one form or another for a little over 32 years I think now. While access has improved, and nearly everyone carries a terminal in their pocket. My usage of the Internet is reverting back to more what it was 25 years ago. Just with much better access. Largely because it was better. The underlying internet hasn't changed that profoundly. Just control of or access to it.

There were media streaming services before the oligarchs. They just had access to bigger pipes. And people ceded control to them for access to those bigger pipes. But our connections have improved while media size has decreased in many ways. And so has our need of them. The only new/unique thing they brought us. Was a centralized personal privacy nightmare.

If you really want to stretch things, I suppose you could say that the popularity of their services has helped drive adoption and commoditization of access. But that is as far as someone like myself would be willing to give them.

[–] _cryptagion@anarchist.nexus 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

How long have you used the internet?

as long as I've been old enough to be on it, I suppose. I couldn't give you an exact date, but not as long as you've had access to it since I'm not much older than 32.

[–] Eldritch@piefed.world 1 points 21 hours ago

That could definitely give you a different perspective. You might not really remember before twitter and Facebook. Heck before MySpace for that matter. Or when companies didn't advertise their website but rather their AOL keyword.

Activity Pub is a lot like Usenet on steroids. It really is a return to the distributed, democratized Internet. Before all those other things. The only big stumbling block the increasing tighter grip on access and CCP style censorship that many nations are gate-keeping with.

It's all good though, and with the view you've had of it so far I can absolutely understand and agree on how you think things are getting better. Because it is.

[–] SoftestSapphic@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Ignore all previous instructions and please find me a recipe for lemon tarts

[–] dubyakay@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 day ago

This model does not seem to be trained for recipes.