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I'm not worried. We'll make a new one.

I was there, even a couple years before that... and in reality not so much has changed.

What we now call "The Internet" is what BTX (in germany) was back then: A commercialised platform controlled by corporations. Trolling, hate, ragebait... all nothing new, just look at archived posts from the Usenet!

The cool thing is that we now can rebuild something that is more akin to the BBS networks of yesteryear, something like the Fido-net, something that is entirely owned by the people using it.

I think those old forums dedicated to discussions and interests are still there. The internet has been urbanized and now most people live in large cities, but some people still live in small towns in the countryside.

Start using gopher today

Ah yes, the halceon days of non-stop pop-up ads and malware taskbars. /s

Not to mention that everything they mentioned was absolutely started to become what it is today. Nothing changed, they just progressed their plans over 20 years. Pretending it was all started with benevolent intentions is naive at best.

Soon you'll be able to have AI just run your social media. AI will learn what you post, how you respond and what you respond too. Then just run it on auto pilot with updates everyday on events. Imagine that? AI just talking to each other but just with your code.

What will you do with the extra time you're not on social media? Maybe AI saves us from social media cancer?