I am not trying to be pessimistic, I am disappointed
Communities that have been built up over the course of years are being broken down due to their owners and/or the platform’s CEOs becoming more greedy over time as they realise their business model couldn’t actually sustain itself. As such, the experience as an individual user suffers compared to even a shorter amount of time, say 5 years ago
Of course, I could be biased, as I have not been around nearly as long on the internet as some others on here have, but there is a clear decline in the platforms themselves which we like to interact on, as they become more and more focused upon generating maximum revenue
After all, whilst one has to remember that whilst there is a lot of independent websites, most internet traffic is spent on just a handful of popular services. It’d be wrong to call my disappointment nothing more as pessimism in an internet where a good part is heading south, considering that even the top search engine, which drives the largest amount of traffic on the entire internet is getting worse by the minute, just to name an example.
TL;DR: I enjoy these smaller, federated communities coming to light more as people begin to see that their favourite places are being robbed of them by corporations which only had the intent of making profit from the very beginning, and calling my dissappointment in the bigger platforms nothing more than pessimism is ignoring the fact that lots of traffic goes to only a few sites.
I am not trying to be pessimistic, I am disappointed
Communities that have been built up over the course of years are being broken down due to their owners and/or the platform’s CEOs becoming more greedy over time as they realise their business model couldn’t actually sustain itself. As such, the experience as an individual user suffers compared to even a shorter amount of time, say 5 years ago
Of course, I could be biased, as I have not been around nearly as long on the internet as some others on here have, but there is a clear decline in the platforms themselves which we like to interact on, as they become more and more focused upon generating maximum revenue
After all, whilst one has to remember that whilst there is a lot of independent websites, most internet traffic is spent on just a handful of popular services. It’d be wrong to call my disappointment nothing more as pessimism in an internet where a good part is heading south, considering that even the top search engine, which drives the largest amount of traffic on the entire internet is getting worse by the minute, just to name an example.
TL;DR: I enjoy these smaller, federated communities coming to light more as people begin to see that their favourite places are being robbed of them by corporations which only had the intent of making profit from the very beginning, and calling my dissappointment in the bigger platforms nothing more than pessimism is ignoring the fact that lots of traffic goes to only a few sites.