remember when the internet was fun and full of possibilities? yknow how now it's a miserable hell? reminder that what happened is that capitalism colonized it and now it's just as shitty as everything else capitalism's got its hooks in
like. seo, algorithms, targeted advertising: these are all DESIGNED to keep you from finding some weirdo's X-Files fan page or geocities star trek web ring. I would 1000x rather find those than tweets from the u.s. president, yet here we are #thankscapitalism
@skirts going back a bit here, internet history-wise.
unfortunately, capitalism fucked up (public) web 1.0 as well, it's just that there was resistance to web 2.0, both in and out of the industry.
people in the industry thought they could have capitalism without the "bad capitalism" and at least from many corners, sort of rolled over (but with objections) when web 2.0 came into being.
people ridiculed Amazon, but none of us (myself included) boycotted and shut down Amazon, either.
@shoutcacophony
whoa these are great points! ugh this is fascinating history