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Ape Fist posted:On one hand I do pine for The Internet of 2007 I'm not gonna lie. I absolutely think Zuck starting the trend (and he actually did start it) of making peoples real lives, and real names be the focal point of the online lives rather than Aliases and Interests was an absolutely incredible mistake for the internet from a cultural and social perspective, but it was all in the interest is business and accountability. I don't like the way "Online" and "Offline" have effectively merged seemlessly and I don't think thats some sort of insane boomer take. While that definitely doesn't help, I posit that nothing is gonna get fixed until we get rid of the real disease of today's internet: The attention economy. It needs to become economically unviable to SEO yourself into some niche of interest and vomit ads (and affiliate fraud) all over it.
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juggalo baby coffin posted:online scams are actually world leading in UX design because they have to be accessible to the dumbest possible people, so modern internet UX has actually been reverse engineered from scammer technology Unironically this. The line between scam and  accepted web practices is fuzzy as all hell. It's not a novel example at this point, but the myriad of subtle and blatant hoops websites jump through to fool people into accepting tracking cookies is a sight to behold.
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Earwicker posted:i strongly suspect that a much larger percentage of boomers know how to fix cars than millenials. but most millenials still drive cars, and are surrounded by cars all the time. I used to agree with that sentiment, and you definitely have a point when it comes to troubleshooting and configuration. But I've run into enough Gen Z workers doing the digital equivalent of going "Wait, there's a button to make the bar things wipe water off my windshield?!?" to stop empathizing. Aramis fucked around with this message at 19:42 on Jan 25, 2024 |
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