the internet has changed... and it is still changing... web3 and "decentralized" crypto hellhole? who the fuck wants that?

dear netizen, take this as a rambble, or as a manifesto, or whatever but... the internet once was a place for creative expression, vastly customizable; a space for people, by the people! usually not controlled by big corporations.

this lasted all up until mid-2010s, when they decided to take away any creativity and customizability we once had, they threw it all away, in favor of advertisers, and investors. alongside big corporations; clout-chasers and quasi-celebrities, also made everything about the money. it’s the main reason the internet is so boring nowadays, because if it wasn’t "sterile" and professional-looking, advertisers won’t like it. i am kinda tired of it... i miss the personal, do-it-yourself aspect of everyone having their own homepage, rather than an account within a closed-off social media platform they can’t even customize. for an example: youtube, twitter, etc, all used to provide so much customizability, we had so many ways to make our profiles fun, to make them "us". but nope, they had to reduce us to profile picture and banner only, meanwhile also banning gif PFPs . arround the same time, microsoft decided to kill the legendary chatting application - windows live messenger or more commonly known as MSN, in hope of people ditching it in favor of skype, hoping to make their money back as they spent whopping $8.5 billion to get skype! and as microsoft hoped for, majority did switch to skype, but it never felt right. i, in fact, never liked skype.

so in a nutshell -- yep, they ruined the internet because of the fucking money, but can we really be surprised? the internet isn’t a hobby anymore, when majority of people just try to capitalise on any given subject. once money is involved, that is not a hobby, that’s a damn job. like it or not, that’s facts.

i really miss the old and simpler internet, it was more fun, more free. i don’t remember much of it, as i was really young and quite terrible at english during 2010s, but i do know internet doesn’t feel the same, as it once did. i just want that back... i don’t dwell on the past necesserily, i just want that old feeling of the internet, which i will never get again. it may sound pathetic, but without it i would actually be completely alone. all my friends live in fucking narnia or some shit, and without the internet, i would’ve never met those people.

apparently, nowadays, they’re trying to "fix" the internet by slow introduction of the "decentralized" internet aka web3.0. which is bunch of bullshit, and currently, for the most part, a cryptobro scam. web3.0 is far from ready for daily use, if it even exists at this point. cryptobros want us to belive this will make internet free again, ’cause we’ll be away from corporations. but how can it be free, when blockchain is involved? it won’t and can’t be free (both as in no cost and as in libre), with blockchain involved. it will become even more of a the rich person’s toy, than it is right now. so in the other words, the literal oposite of what they make us belive. i might not be anti-crypto per se, but imagining the blockchain as integral part of the web borders with insanity!

the goal isnt to dwell on the past, or to ignore the progression - but what they show as "progression", actually isnt it. they made us forget how to actually make our own pages, and maintain our own webservers, they made us overly-dependent on search engines, and social media in general. the internet as a whole went downhill ever since people stopped making their own homepages. however: the web is in our hands, we can continue watching the web decay and rot, or we can do something about it!

remember kids, say no to NFTs, web4, and the metaverse (VR is cool as fuck, just not zucker’s vision of it lol).

last edited: 02/02/2023 02:19 PM