I've come to realize that when people are talking about stuff like the decline of the internet, by "internet", they're really talking about the same small handful of sites that they, and everyone else, visits (youtube, tiktok, pornhub, etc). A friend of mine was all doom and gloom over ID verification and privacy cause he depends on stuff like google drive and spotify and discord and it was funny seeing him get so depressed over it cause these sites have him, and pretty much every normalfag, locked with a ball and chain.Yes people should rally against shit like forced IDs and governments overstepping their bounds, but a lot of the stress is gone once you stop relying on these services. You own the files on your storage just as much as you own your physical media and you'll always have full control over your own shit. They can't collect data on you that you don't provide after all. Its never too late to loosen that ball and chain and start a digital collection, and the internet is merely a tool to facilitate that.
>>108832841normies will piss their pants in fear over AI replacing them but willingly use "these stupid fucks trust me" zuckerberg's facebook and the surveillance engine that is Microsoft Windows. you made your bed, now lie in it. I hope the convenience was worth it.
>>108832841>a lot of the stress is gone once you stop relying on these servicesExcept these laws affect everything on the internet, not just big corpo sites. Of course it would be harder to enforce against 1200 independent forums than against one big social media site. But that's the problem. Almost all of the independent blogs and forums and chat rooms are gone, they're all on Reddit and D*scord now. And anyone who wants to operate a site where people can freely communicate and share information now is technically breaking the law and must accept the risk of getting assraped by the government at any time.The sad truth is that the only way this gets better is if people suddenly get a lot more comfortable with openly defying the law, and/or move to experimental/niche decentralized technology.You can download everything you like and take it all offline with you, and everyone should be doing this. But the environment for sharing, creating, connecting, and communicating in the first place is still destroyed, and I guess that's fine if you're happy in a well stocked digital bunker. But a collection of media isn't the internet, it's a time capsule of it.
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>>108832841we get it, you use the internet as tv 2that's fine, but as a new internet user you do not understand what the old internet users are talking aboutstop trying to interject, you lack perspective
>>108832841I just don't want to read jeet gibberish like your post, is that too much to ask?
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I've noticed this too. Then they blindly trust anything that claims to be "private" and think they've beat the matrix.There are services out there that have hardly changed in 20 years, and alternative ways of accessing the same content on normie services. It's not even that much of a radical change, you just need to look for alternatives and be very selective.>MEGA can replace Google Drive, but it upsells a VPN and AI chatbot I don't need with monthly payments>pCloud can replace Google Drive and it's only upsell is a password manager which I should probably be using anyway with a lifetime one-time payment
>>108832841>I've come to realize that when people are talking about stuff like the decline of the internet, by "internet", they're really talking about the same small handful of sites that they, and everyone else, visitsNah, I don't really give a shit about the "big sites", other than that I need to find the odd thing via a web search and it pisses me off I can't find it. The problems are absolutely hitting the smaller sites I actually care about though.You can't run any kind of blog with comments, without getting overrun by spam, which is making self-publishing stuff more expensive and driving out smaller creators, or pushing them onto shitty platforms like Medium or Substack.If you host your own stuff (even through a shared hosting provider), you get bodied by the churn of constant security vulnerabilities hitting WordPress and shit. My employer pays a stupid amount of money to host a website, and a lot of that is going towards "security add-ons" from the hosting provider. I can't imagine people paying what we pay basically for funsies.Advertising on the web has gone to shit. I mean, it always was obnoxious, but advertisers used to dump money on the web with zero qualms about "efficacy" or "results". But now they've figured out the metrics to gauge success, and the free money has dried up. You're either min-maxxing the advertising revenue (including intrusive "sharing" of your customer's data), or you lose money paying for bandwidth for your site. At least adblockers and privacy extensions make the status quo tolerable for end-users, but the larger system that allowed the old internet to flourish is gone.And even the people that produce content are struggling, so the things we used to give away for free, the things that nourished the public consciousness, are all being monetized out of desperation. And if the content creator isn't monetizing it, the platform is (with all the problems around advertising mentioned above).
>>108833006retard-tier post
>>108832841I'm talking about 2FA being pushed everywhere. Fuck 2FA. If retards use weak passwords they get what they deserve.
>>108833632Valid point, we don't have the intelligence in our race and we just barely got our oil strat but now all the nice stuff is in the hands of billionaires like 4chan (you) and VR headsets (me) but music is free as in freedom and that is the reason you and I wake up every day.
>>108833697I don't mind TOTP but if your 2FA involves a phone number or worse, an app, then fuck off forever
>>108832961> only way this gets better is if people suddenly get a lot more comfortable with openly defying the lawgenuinely one of the optimistic observations i’ve heard about all this. think about it this way: weed is/was illegal but did that stop anyone? nothingburger confirmed.
>>108835937Is it possible to host a website on the clearnet without exposing oneself to liability? Pretty much any VPS provider will have your name and payment information and are legally required to give it up. And if you're hosting something illegal (like a forum that doesn't verify age) then the police can easily get your info from the provider and come and fuck with you.
>>108837570>Pretty much any VPS provider will have your name and payment information and are legally required to give it up.you can find plenty of VPS providers on blackhatworld and lowendtalk that don't require KYC and accept bitcoin
