Internet is nearing exhaustion

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  • shapesalad1

    Anybody else find going outside without their phone — like we did for millions of years up until the early 2000's — gives them a little bit of an adrenaline rush?

    • Depends on how much of your life is online.
      Most of the people Ik can go for a day without their phone and nothing happens.
      grafician
    • It is nice, I do it from time to time. Fuck the phone, I’m going for a walknb
    • every time I go for a run, 3 or 4 times a week, no adrenaline rush here. When I get home the phone usually stays next to the wallet and car keysdmay
    • I feel naked without being able to constantly be connected to QBNChimp
  • garbage2

    I think we're close to a saturation point, but collectively we're going to embrace it.

    I know some folks who are embracing the whole "dumb phone" thing, and this has me wondering if there's a dumb phone rom / launcher for Android.

    • From late friday to monday morning, if I'm going out, I left my phone at home, wife takes hers for daugthers or family calls.OBBTKN
  • nb3

    It’s 4:30am here but this is the best article I’ve read in a while. (The substack one, not the vibe check one although that’s ok too)

  • hans_glib0

    ‘It sees that you bought a ticket to Budapest, so you get more tickets to Budapest...All they really know about you is your shopping.’

    i've never understood this thought process. surely it's far more effective to make suggestions of other shit that other buyers of whatever it is you've bought have also bought (many website do this already)? <-- spot the non-marketer

    and as i'm sure i'm not the only one to use ad and tracker blockers, rendering all those stupid ads pointless anyway

    • I'm immune to ads. You know these "have you seen any ads of product X"-questions on Youtube? I always choose "none of the above" and Im not lyingdrgs
    • I could not tell for the life of me what ad I just watched 5 min agodrgs
    • I would actually appreciate it if youtube ran ads for cool affordable watch brands or a 100% british wool shawl cardigan etc, things i'm shopping for right nowshapesalad
    • Instead I get annoying ads for that Evony mobile game. I've not played a mobile game since 2009 when i got an iPhone and play game for 10mins then deleted it.shapesalad
    • Instead i'm drilling through google search results trying to find a 100% british stylish knitwear brands. I found instagram shop search to be more useful.shapesalad
    • Internet is peaked shit now. But it won't die, people still use it, platforms will just have to get smarter and better the ad serving, current system is bad forshapesalad
    • all parties.shapesalad
    • @shape YT is the adtech platform. You watch a lot of mindnumbing content and so you get the ads for dumb thingsnb
    • I think you do, based on some of the stuff you share here. I might be wrongnb
  • grafician1

    It's not this.

    The trouble is centralization.

    The trouble is that Amazon AWS and Cloudflare practically control the Internet "pipes" and mostly everything goes thru' these giants and they can censor/block anything they like.

    The trouble is that Google can cut your Gmail account and ruin your entire digital AND IRL life with no accountability.

    The trouble is that Tiktok has 80% or more market share with the new generation and its algos are controlled basically by China. China shows productive and educational content on tiktok in China and bullshit, memes and dumb content to the Western world.

    The trouble is Microsoft, Apple, Adobe, Oracle, etc. have monopolies on platforms and are showing increasingly anti-user behaviour and dark patterns, etc.

    The trouble is regular folk have no clue how the internet works and don't care so nobody is doing shit to change the status quo.

    Effectively probably 10% of users know actually how the cookies are made and complain in online bubbles to each other while 90% of users just consume with no fucks given.

    Yes, the internet - the last frontier of free thought - will be dead soon enough at this rate...

    • There needs to be some kind of Digital / Internet Education given kids. Most are not aware of the addictive nature of it.Chimp
  • utopian2

    No worries...DALLE, Midjourney, and other Artificial Intelligent web and mobile apps will help fill the void for all of the underachieving, narcissistic, vapid, consuming humans out there.

  • rootlock1

    I haven't had a phone for 3 years. Have a landline and a computer. Best thing I ever did. I call them fatal distractions.

    I think the new generation will migrate to dumb phones. Much like when they stopped engaging with facebook.

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  • Chimp0

    I was thinking that the internet is going through a maturation phase. Perhaps this idea is wrong or needs more thought.

    1. Baby phase of useless websites with bold fonts.
    2. Teenage phase of bitching and moaning but has potential.
    3. Actual useful phase....

  • Morning_star0

    The internet is just a river. If we all wash our arses in it, it becomes polluted and horrible to consume.

    Like a river, it's power is unfathomable and in time we will learn to harness it, bath in it's beauty and it will quench our thirst. At the moment we are not only washing our arses in it but we're close to drowning due to the flotsam and jetsam of corporate detritus.