I feel like it’s really hard to be optimistic about the state of the internet. While some more technologically and politically conscious users might make different choices, 99% of the people will just keep using Google and following along whatever changes they make.
Someone I follow would say, and paraphrasing because I don’t have photographic memory, if you keep looking downwards, you may say with confidence that you are in soil and that it doesn’t end because that’s what you see, but someone else looking forward is able to see where both are going. (Diogo Forjaz the guy I am paraphrasing)
But to reach a decent outcome, one actively needs to raise his/her head and seek the best path visible.
And these I’d say are problems being built up for at least a century, but knowing the problem being the first step to change it, awareness has never been higher, the reversion taking off in only 20~30 years.
But to those that benefit from these problems, they are likely setting up so once one agenda falls, they have a new agenda they parasite. And the next one apparently is already taking form, which is still somewhat nebulous to me, but with some patterns already taking form.
One pattern is old actually, to make people have an immediate and panicked reaction to a new problem each week. So first, the better course of actions is to calm down, evaluate how bad things really are and not how they seem to be, evaluate what would be a good outcome (and if you aren’t defending a problematic outcome without knowing), and evaluate how to get to such a good outcome.
Be the change you want to see! Inform as many people as you can and hopefully some people Will understand. “Some people” sounds way better than “almost no one” :D
This! There are plenty of decent search engine alternatives. Keep using the alternatives and yapping about them to other people
the future of the web should have been napster and similar, not this centralized trash heap
I don’t think Google “search” is has a 99% marketshare, it is probably less.
Iirc, it is 90%
Have you read this? Beyond “the state of the internet”, I feel like they are sawing the branch they sit on.
Interesting read, thanks
I rather hope that it becomes the final nail in the coffin for Googel itself.
I don’t think this is the final nail but I do think that it is a dividing wall. The internet has always had a way of siloing people off into separate communities and that’s just going to get more explicit with the mainstream platforms being totally owned and controlled and the people who are more enthusiasts getting more and more separated from those mainstream communities.
The internet has always had a way of siloing people off into separate communities
That’s not so much the internet as people generally. People are all about creating groups and categories, of each other as much as of things.
