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You can order a pizza and have it delivered to your house. In an app.
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A wild west internet was fine before everything had to be consolidated and monetized by a handful of tech giants or startups looking to be acquired by them. A laissez-faire internet doesn’t work because of monopolies and generally uninformed users. The solutions should be obvious but ofc nothing is being done and I doubt the internet will ever be fixed in any real way.
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Aug 10, 2023 05:56
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The Hello Machine posted:You can order a pizza and have it delivered to your house. In an app. yeah not gonna lie this feature is dope keep it
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Aug 10, 2023 06:16
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The Hello Machine posted:You can order a pizza and have it delivered to your house. In an app. ...by someone who's underpaid and doesn't have health insurance because delivery app companies were successful in skirting labor laws and making all of their delivery people independently contractors instead of employees 😬🤦♂️ (Not talking about actual pizza restaurants like Pizza Hut or Papa John's, getting a pizza delivered online still owns)
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Aug 10, 2023 06:39
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snergle posted:the only thing thats good on the internet is being like how do i do x then you google it and find a youtube video Or just hit up Wikihow.com ! 
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Aug 10, 2023 07:08
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Aug 10, 2023 07:09
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Soundcloud. The handful of old PHPBB or vBulletin based traditional forums for specific hobbies that are still kicking in 2023 somehow. Slack and Discord (though both are being enshittified pretty badly, there are still a lot of good communities based on both platforms). Sites that mirror and archive all of those old 90s and 2000s text only or very image light sites that contain a wealth of information and would otherwise be lost to time.
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Aug 10, 2023 09:12
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The Hello Machine posted:You can order a pizza and have it delivered to your house. In an app. You can order a pizza and have it delivered to your house. In The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion.
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Aug 10, 2023 09:25
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Internet Old One posted:If you were a developer so many things would just be free for you, I remember running so much telephony stuff on a service called tropo and I could provision 800 numbers and run things on it without spending a penny. to echo everyone else, it should be obvious why this shift happened. someone did flip a switch, but the intent wasn't to make it lovely, the intent was to start profiting off of whatever the thing was. since it was free before, and awesome, obviously anything that makes money won't be as good as that previous iteration. everything got worse and worse as the people responsible for those platforms started trying to squeeze more and more money out of them. the only way things can stay free and not lovely is if they're run out of benevolence / as someone's personal project, or if they're run as a public service for everyone. the former might sporadically exist, for as long as that one guy cares about the thing, but it'll eventually shut down like all the ones before. the latter is impossible.
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Minotaurus Rex posted:And the fact that Spotify has every tune at a click of a button would be cool if they hadn’t gutted the music industry to do it I'm totally ignorant about this kind of thing, but are big artists appreciably worse off vs the terrible contracts of yesteryear?
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Raluek posted:to echo everyone else, it should be obvious why this shift happened. someone did flip a switch, but the intent wasn't to make it lovely, the intent was to start profiting off of whatever the thing was. since it was free before, and awesome, obviously anything that makes money won't be as good as that previous iteration. It’s obvious that they wanted to make money but it’s not so obvious why it starts happening all at once. There were a lot of good things still going straight through the 2008 crash and it’s weird that things would start getting worse after when they did and the economy was doing better. super nailgun posted:Soundcloud. Earlier this year I went out of my way to find a few dozen active forums. I don’t go on them daily and it’s way more shitposting than I can consume and holy moly it’s way better than what reddit has become. Internet Old One fucked around with this message at 11:45 on Aug 10, 2023 |
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SilvergunSuperman posted:I'm totally ignorant about this kind of thing, but are big artists appreciably worse off vs the terrible contracts of yesteryear? yes even EMI didn't pay artists by the millionth of a cent
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Deep Glove Bruno posted:yes even EMI didn't pay artists by the millionth of a cent true, but also lovely deals with record labels were not replaced by lovely deals with spotify. they both exist simultaneously and feed on each other, and it's both spotify execs and record label execs who profit from this poo poo. like to be clear, in the case of major artists on spotify, the deal isn't between spotify and the artist, it's between spotify and their label. the deal between the label and artist is a separate thing. so in the case of major label artists, spotify pays their lovely payouts to the label, not the artist, and the artist gets paid a percentage of that based on whatever their deal with the label is. Earwicker fucked around with this message at 19:34 on Aug 10, 2023 |
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Let's also not discount the fact that part of Spotify's rise was allowing the record companies to take a substantial stake in Spotify itself, so the record companies are basically self dealing with the artist picking up the tab.
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Raluek posted:to echo everyone else, it should be obvious why this shift happened. someone did flip a switch, but the intent wasn't to make it lovely, the intent was to start profiting off of whatever the thing was. since it was free before, and awesome, obviously anything that makes money won't be as good as that previous iteration. Angel investors started to get a lot less angelic.
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Aug 10, 2023 20:54
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Easy to find lots of good cooking recipes.
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Aug 10, 2023 23:02
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Internetjack posted:Easy to find lots of good cooking recipes. And great stories to go along with them!
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Aug 10, 2023 23:04
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Aggressively misogynist anime porn.
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Impossibly Perfect Sphere posted:And great stories to go along with them! 
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Aug 10, 2023 23:19
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that website about ninjas. you know the one.
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Aug 10, 2023 23:28
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Educational YouTube is genuinely one of the best things in the world. This summer I binged Historia Civilis and Mentour Pilot and developed interests in Roman politics and aircraft crash investigations, which never would have happened otherwise. Last year it was religious history and American law through Religion for Breakfast and Legal Eagle. YouTube has a higher bar to clear than Wikipedia in getting people to do free labor because videos are harder than text. But it’s pretty clear YouTube has a successful enough monetization model because these professionals are all willing to create these high quality videos on the side.
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Vegetable posted:Educational YouTube is genuinely one of the best things in the world. This summer I binged Historia Civilis and Mentour Pilot and developed interests in Roman politics and aircraft crash investigations, which never would have happened otherwise. Last year it was religious history and American law through Religion for Breakfast and Legal Eagle. e: joke answer but not really: Grindr
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buglord posted:e: joke answer but not really: Grindr Craigslist personals were better
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Grindr legit makes me jealous of gay people.
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Cant we just make a new internet?
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Hihohe posted:Cant we just make a new internet? Sure but who’s going to fund it?
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Sophy Wackles posted:Sure but who’s going to fund it? El Partido Comunista de Cuba edit: which, to be clear, would rule
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Sophy Wackles posted:Sure but who’s going to fund it? DARPA
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The amazing bluebra video, which I will bemoan until the end of time as it got taken down and never resurfaced again.
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Internet archive maybe. But honestly no its a cancer.
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YouTube, but only the videos about how to fix small problems with appliances and furniture for basically free.The Hello Machine posted:You can order a pizza and have it delivered to your house. In an app. You could do that before too, also from your phone, without having to waste 400mb on an animated tracker that's not actually a tracker, just a timer A Stupid Baby fucked around with this message at 19:17 on Aug 12, 2023 |
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Lol just read that Internet archive is getting sued by music labels. Well, that was nice while it lasted.
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Vegetable posted:Educational YouTube is genuinely one of the best things in the world. This summer I binged Historia Civilis and Mentour Pilot and developed interests in Roman politics and aircraft crash investigations, i mean that stuff is cool. but here's the thing, i also have developed an interest in aircraft crash investigations. i never wanted to, it just started creeping more and more into my feed and since i travel a lot and am vaguely interested in aviation, at some point i started clicking on it. now aircraft crash investigations is like 50% of the videos recommended to me. and while they are interesting, and important, there are also a lot of, i suspect, mentally healthier aspects of aviation to get into besides crash investigations, but thats absolutely what the algorithm puts in my face all the time. its weird and i dont think its great. not discounting that there's a lot of good poo poo on youtube worth saving, its full of awesome content, but the algorithm is hosed
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i must compose posted:Lol just read that Internet archive is getting sued by music labels. Well, that was nice while it lasted. I thought this was old news for a moment, but actually I just mistook the music labels for publishers. 
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I love these forums, and I watch a LOT of YouTube, so.... Those sites. Plus my email server. That's it. Burn everything else idgaf
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Earwicker posted:i mean that stuff is cool. but here's the thing, i also have developed an interest in aircraft crash investigations. i never wanted to, it just started creeping more and more into my feed and since i travel a lot and am vaguely interested in aviation, at some point i started clicking on it. now aircraft crash investigations is like 50% of the videos recommended to me. and while they are interesting, and important, there are also a lot of, i suspect, mentally healthier aspects of aviation to get into besides crash investigations, but thats absolutely what the algorithm puts in my face all the time. its weird and i dont think its great. not discounting that there's a lot of good poo poo on youtube worth saving, its full of awesome content, but the algorithm is hosed This is why specialized channels are great; because of them, you subscribe to all of these specialized interests and everything else can go gently caress itself.  There is a LOT of great poo poo on there, you're absolutely right, but of course, there's a gently caress ton of garbage. I love the weird specializers.
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Internet Old One posted:I visited a totse spinoff recently and while I can't say it was a cuddly PC experience it's managed to achieve early internet style free speech with all it's warts and glory without just being a place for chuds and pedos to advertise their ideologies in bad faith. Which one, by chance. there are only 3 left that I know of. Niggasin.space - Run by Lanny, who hasn't posted since April so I have no clue where he is. The site is fairly active with easily 25+ posts every few hours. Newtotse.com - Run by Helladamnleet, this site runs on vbulletin so it runs smoothly as hell, essentially an old-school feel with some added features. Totseans.com - This place is a graveyard, unfortunately. I miss the internet when it was like the wild west XD.
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