Anyone else tired of the (modern) internet?

tyl · 2025-05-19T08:53:46+00:00

I've been thinking about this again due to recent events, I have quite a few times in the past few years but especially these past few months, not even sure...

tyl

the-syreth-clan Couldn't agree more, literally everything about modern culture is just terrible, its not an issue exclusive to the internet, its just where I feel it more given that I spend more time online and the internet used to differ from mainstream IRL culture, thats no more no, theres no escaping all the bs.

Smartphones should've removed the loudspeaker instead of the headphone jack, go on a bus, half the creatures are blasting tiktok garbage at full volume it makes me wanna blow my brain out.

the-syreth-clan

tyl While not "tiktok garbage" specifically, but I sure had similar experiences with kids' entertainment videos the parents just put in front of their child to sedate them while traveling, max volume of course. Since switching to a physical notebook I've noticed just the sheer amount of people on their smartphones while on a ride, younger and older alike. It's pretty disturbing.

mechap

There’s an increasing chasm dividing the modern web right now. On one side, the commercial, monopolies-riddled, media-adored web. A web which has only one objective: making us click. It measures clicks, optimizes clicks, generates clicks. It gathers as much information as it could about us and spams every second of our life with ads, beep, notifications, vibrations, background music and fluorescent titles.

Then there’s the tech-savvy web. People who install adblockers or alternative browsers. People who try alternative networks and hosts their own services. People who poke fun at the modern web by building true html and javascript-less pages.

Between those two extremes, the gap is widening. You have to choose your camp. After all, when browsing on the "normal web", it is increasingly required to disable at least part of your antifeatures-blockers to access content.

kyga

mechap Alternative browsers? What like Usenet?

tyl

kyga I think the reset is gonna happen somewhat soon, the divide is already quite big mechap its just going to get bigger especially due to regulation now.
It used to be here is this cool site/program/whatever check it out. Then now you need a special messenger/email/workarounds/whatever to even post/receive the link as everything has built in censorship/surveillance now blocking it, then you need a special browser to access it, then you need a VPN too, then you need to change your OS, then you need to only use very specific hardware that can run all of the above,and we're soon reaching the you'll get into legal trouble for doing anything even remotely out of line.
In some form alternatives will always exist but only a select few of the most dedicated people will make it further, TLDR its kind of fucked.

Ross_R

kyga
I believe, my dude refers to things like LibreWolf, Pale Moon and the likes.

mechap

kyga sorry that's a typo. I meant "networks".

kyga

mechap Dang. I was hoping there was another protocol I hadn't heard of.

I really wish there was something that was like a mix of IRC and torrenting, where websites were hosted locally and/or distributed on multiple computers. Something where you could use a real programming language to build web apps instead of trying to shoehorn it into HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. The internet needs to be thrown out and stared over from the ground up. I mean, wasn't HTML used to write research papers? It has no business being used for what it is today.

Also, if it was local it would be free from all of the stupid commercial stuff and government regulations.

mechap

kyga Have you heard about gemini/gopher ? They are alternative protocols to http with minimalism and security in mind. The internet doesn't have to be bloated with javascript soykaf.

Sean

Ross_R I completely agree with your point about YouTube getting worse. We used to get updates on what was being changed on the website. Now they seem to have nothing against using an AI to filter the quality of your video without you knowing.

Warosu

I've made multiple accounts on Twitter, all of which racked up to like 1k posts in just a few months before I abandoned them for miscellaneous reasons. I made my most recent around these past few months. I got into an argument with some random; I didn't even realize it, but we kept responding to each other for HOURS trying to offend each other. I looked over it and was actually so embarrassed I had made like 50+ comments. I quit Twitter and Reddit today because of that, backing away from mainstream social media and moving to forums. There's WAYYY more to the internet than the popular stuff.

I started learning Blender, and I enjoyed it. I spent days' worth of time on Twitter; I didn't care, frankly, I was bored, but I never got off of it because I saw no social alternatives (Reddit isn't much different, and I was a complete wuss and was TERRIFIED of 4chan LOL.) I spent so much time being a "troll" towards randoms, I probably could've learned to code and actually do something I enjoy (gaming and game development) with the amount of time I spent being an anti-social cunt, but here I am, with thousands of social media posts to my many usernames and ZERO online friends.

Frankly, I'm happy to be getting off the sort of "front page of the internet" and start exploring. I'm just disappointed I didn't do this earlier; I missed out on so much.

Somnolence

Warosu
You can feel bad about having wasted your time, but you're smart to have gotten out when you could.
Most people just stay half-submerged in the morass, seemingly forever.

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