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No, I think this will all end, as T.S Eliot said, with a whimper. People will simply lose interest and walk away. Because the internet now is boring . People spend all day scrolling because they are trying to find what isn’t there anymore. The authenticity, the genuinely human moments, the fun.
The End of the Extremely Online Era
🚨This is the trap that social media, and by extension all of us, are in:
📈Toxicity drives use. Lowering toxicity drops ad sales (if you are ad supported) & engagement (even if you are not)
📉Toxicity spreads like a disease. It turns regular users toxic & makes networks awful
📈Toxicity drives use. Lowering toxicity drops ad sales (if you are ad supported) & engagement (even if you are not)
📉Toxicity spreads like a disease. It turns regular users toxic & makes networks awful
Noah Smith • The internet wants to be fragmented - by Noah Smith The internet wants to be fragmented
Beyond that the wider internet just strikes me as a sad place. There is no energy there. The cracks in the wall are beginning to show.
The End of the Extremely Online Era
But you know what? I really like the physical world. I like to feel like
a healthy animal. Too much time in the virtual world makes me feel worse.
I don't like it. And to me there is no question that the qualities of
the physical place where I live are far, far more important than anything
about the Internet, and always will be.
a healthy animal. Too much time in the virtual world makes me feel worse.
I don't like it. And to me there is no question that the qualities of
the physical place where I live are far, far more important than anything
about the Internet, and always will be.
The Town Paper: Is New Urbanism the Next Internet?
There is no place for self-actualisation like the Internet. To put on and take off identities, personalities, interests, and styles with no cost at all and by simply lifting a pointer finger. This has generally been considered an advantage of the Internet. I’d argue it is not. It feeds an instinct that has been trained in us from marketing... See more
Phoebe Gibb • The Digital Bedroom
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I do think that the end really is here for the blogosphere though. This time it really is different. I’ve weathered many ups and downs in the blogosphere over my 17 years in it, but now it feels like the end of the blogging era. And what has emerged to take its place is not the blogosphere (and really shouldn’t try to be), even though parts of it... See more
Venkatesh Rao • Ribbonfarm Is Retiring
If you are 22 years old, Twitter has been around for about as long as you’ve known how to read. YouTube is fixed as firmly as the stars. I honestly don’t know how that feels, but I wonder if it’s claustrophobic?
Robin Sloan • Notes on Web3
Because of the internet we don’t need to define our identity based on where we physically live, who we’re born to, or what we look like, as has been the case in human history until now.