Technology @lemmy.world thehatfox @lemmy.world 1 yr. ago

The end of the Googleverse

www.theverge.com The end of the Googleverse

The last 25 years of Google’s history can be boiled down to a battle against the Google bomb. Is the search engine finally losing to its hijackers?

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Google SEO has homogenized the internet with vapid marketing content. The internet is one big commercial. The reason Reddit got popular was because communities found and shared good content and created more by talking about it. Now ads are disguised as posts and memes.

The internet is getting as bad as radio.
- The internet is getting as bad as radio.
  
  Lemmy kinda feels like the 2000's internet and I love it
  
  edit: formatting
  
  i didn't get to experience the 2000s internet and I've been loving lemmy
  
  The whole internet used to be like this and it was lovely.
  
  Let's not romanticize the old web too much. It had its problems too:
  
  Half-done html pages with under_construction.gif or cliparts copypasted from Word. Some went through multiple editors like Frontpage and Dreamweaver which ended up producing spaghetti HTML.
  
  Autoplaying midi from songs probably from Limp Bizkit, Metallica, Blink 182, etc. Did I mention that MIDI volumes count as separate from normal 'Media' volumes, and were often cranked to the MAX?
  
  It was a time when HTML/CSS/JS would chaotically intertwine with proprietary plugins like Flash and ActiveX. "Best viewed from Internet Explorer at 800x600" was a thing. Readability? Accessibility? Forget about it.
  
  You paid by minute on dial-up connection until ADSL appeared. Good luck trying to download that tenchi_muyo_hentai.jpg.
  
  That was more the 90s - the time of things like Geocities - than the 2000s.
  
  By the 2000s there had already been one Internet Boom & Bust and things on the Internet were way more comercialized than is earlier times of handmade sites, pre-CSS webpages and ActiveX components.
  
  Cries in 2001 birth year.
  
  Same
  Hello fellow... are we considered as gen-zedders or tail end millennials? Because I have friends born in 97 and they are definitely not Gen Z
  
  Millennials, according to Wikipedia,
  
  The generation typically being defined as people born from 1981 to 1996
  
  After that is Gen Z and Gen Alpha starts somewhere around 2010.
  
  So 1997 would be an older Gen Z
  
  That generational 'designation' has been changed so many times it's not credible.
  
  Gen X was originally they 'children of the baby boomers'. If someone was born in 1981, they were young Gen X for most of their life, now they are told they are 'Millennials'
  
  I grew up around cousins who were all older than me, so I think I was influenced more by 90s culture than most of my peers. I think you and I are the awkward in-between.
  
  Yes this is how I feel as well
  
  The older you get, the more you see generational cuttoffs as a load of bullshit.
  
  1997 is a funny birthyear 😀 on one hand you grow up in "traditionell way" and thus you understand older folks who don’t understand new slang but on the other hand you understand the digital natives who grow up with all that attention grabbing BS.
  
  Yeah, I feel like people born up until around the early 00s still got to experience what life without smartphones & social media was like
  
  For just a few years, yes.
  
  Imagine content creation that was done purely for the fun of creating content and sharing info, albeit with literally zero hope of receiving any money. Better in some ways, worse in others.
  
  Pretty much.
  
  As soon as people realized you could make money generating content, it all became homogenized shit.
  
  Same thing with video games. I miss the days when people didn't treat them like a job.
  
  Now every gamer thinks and plays like they can go pro, similar to elementary schoolkids on the basketball court thinking they'll go pro.
  
  this seems perfect
  
  It just reminds me of early reddit before it was taken over by the dumbs.
  
  Eh, I'd be careful with this sentiment. A significant part of internet's decline comes from people who think of themselves as too smart and rationalize their own nonsense.
  
  And also nothing prevents people who ruined Reddit from coming here, and they do.
  
  It makes me wonder tho: is Lemmy sustainable? I never want to get invested in something like Reddit again when there's no proper and respectful end game for all the communities that make up their lifeblood.
  
  In my experience all good things on the internet come to an end. Usually when big money starts meddling.
  
  The most "2000s internet" I get is me and my internet pals hosting our own websites)
  
  I'm hosting my instance and website in my basement and its awesome
  
  Yeah. I'm noticing when things get too big, undesirables start creeping in.
  
  'Undesirable' in this sense would be people with more money than sense and incredibly low standards for what they spend it on. They are the kinds that are proud to be ripped off and businesses will cater to them over smarter folk.
  
  Yup and hopefully only the beginning. The fediverse is like a better internet without big tech.
- Oof, that last sentence hits home.
- The internet is one big commercial.
  
  So fucking true.
  
  Thanks, capitalism.

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