Post by Captain Ally on Jan 29, 2023 0:09:31 GMT -6
Essentially. Everything is being gentrified. And I kind of buy into the dead internet theory.
I'm not sure what to call it, but we're in a post period.
Google searches have this sort of soft firewall. Do you remember the whimsicalness of early internet? I wasn't around from the beginning but I've been using it for a considerable amount of time. Going on YouTube or Google made me feel like there a whole nother world available to me. When I was younger I remember learning about space and being told just how vast it was. Well searching on the internet made it feel like a third equally vast world was available to me. And I didn't have to step out of the comforts of my home to reach it.
Many years ago I remember being able to search one topic, get a link to a website, and then find another, and another... and it would continue endlessly. Have you tried searching a menial topic in the past five years, and not reach the information you wanted right away? Even within the past week I've ended up feeling frustrated. I remember trying to buy clothing in the past year, and going onto the second page of searches still gave me websites that had nothing to do with what I wanted.
This actually isn't a new issue. Because in reality google search engines, or pretty much all search engines get sort of attacked by bots and other humans. For a while the way that Google worked and optimized it's own technology was done so in a way that made it "smarter" than everybody else. Whereas it still preformed really well, and you got the knowledge that you wanted on your own. But I think with new leadership and the woes of capitalism- even they couldn't run against the mill. There was a new policy and things introduced where it became about how much money they could earn. They wanted to capture more and more "foot traffic". When you search a topic that you need answers too, google now trys to sell you a solution. They get paid to run more and more ads.
YouTube even started dying too. Well that's to be expected actually if Google owns it. The year 2016 is brought up a lot, and maybe people are going to get tired of hearing about it. However that really was a turning point. I remember there being specific people that everyone watched on YouTube. Certain apps became *the* places to connect with people and be a popular person online. And I remember more and more changes with commercialization. Especially with YouTube, I remember content creators talking about 10-minute videos and new censorship. You couldn't say whatever you want, although maybe that part needed some reining in and it's "ok". Looking at you 2000s and 2010s racists.
Anyways, the point I want to make is that killing our ability to connect and find the knowledge left by other people was and is the goal. I feel like going into the 2010s Google was trying to hold off against this and were successful for the most part, but it wasn't stable. If I'm being honest, looking back on it all. The internet was evolving too quickly for there to be people keeping it de-centralized. It was dying as soon as the 2000s started, and I'm just upset about it now.
I'm not sure what to call it, but we're in a post period.
Google searches have this sort of soft firewall. Do you remember the whimsicalness of early internet? I wasn't around from the beginning but I've been using it for a considerable amount of time. Going on YouTube or Google made me feel like there a whole nother world available to me. When I was younger I remember learning about space and being told just how vast it was. Well searching on the internet made it feel like a third equally vast world was available to me. And I didn't have to step out of the comforts of my home to reach it.
Many years ago I remember being able to search one topic, get a link to a website, and then find another, and another... and it would continue endlessly. Have you tried searching a menial topic in the past five years, and not reach the information you wanted right away? Even within the past week I've ended up feeling frustrated. I remember trying to buy clothing in the past year, and going onto the second page of searches still gave me websites that had nothing to do with what I wanted.
This actually isn't a new issue. Because in reality google search engines, or pretty much all search engines get sort of attacked by bots and other humans. For a while the way that Google worked and optimized it's own technology was done so in a way that made it "smarter" than everybody else. Whereas it still preformed really well, and you got the knowledge that you wanted on your own. But I think with new leadership and the woes of capitalism- even they couldn't run against the mill. There was a new policy and things introduced where it became about how much money they could earn. They wanted to capture more and more "foot traffic". When you search a topic that you need answers too, google now trys to sell you a solution. They get paid to run more and more ads.
YouTube even started dying too. Well that's to be expected actually if Google owns it. The year 2016 is brought up a lot, and maybe people are going to get tired of hearing about it. However that really was a turning point. I remember there being specific people that everyone watched on YouTube. Certain apps became *the* places to connect with people and be a popular person online. And I remember more and more changes with commercialization. Especially with YouTube, I remember content creators talking about 10-minute videos and new censorship. You couldn't say whatever you want, although maybe that part needed some reining in and it's "ok". Looking at you 2000s and 2010s racists.
Anyways, the point I want to make is that killing our ability to connect and find the knowledge left by other people was and is the goal. I feel like going into the 2010s Google was trying to hold off against this and were successful for the most part, but it wasn't stable. If I'm being honest, looking back on it all. The internet was evolving too quickly for there to be people keeping it de-centralized. It was dying as soon as the 2000s started, and I'm just upset about it now.