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[–] pseudonaut@lemmy.world 3 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

The shift of 'the internet is the greatest tool for knowledge, to what it is now, some cancerous corpo bloated bullshit

Spot on.

The worst part is that anyone who wasn’t around for the first 10ish years of the web has never seen how real and optimistic and grass roots and delightfully human it was.

We really lost a lot.

[–] Bosht@lemmy.world 1 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

We used to think pop ups were the worst that could happen. Good god were we wrong.

[–] taladar@sh.itjust.works 2 points 9 hours ago

To be fair 90% of the corporate bullshit we are looking at today is born out of the same mindset as popups.