Null User Object@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 days agoAre a few people ruining the internet for the rest of us?www.theguardian.comexternal-linkmessage-square24fedilinkarrow-up1230arrow-down18file-textcross-posted to: technology@beehaw.org
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minus-squarethe_wiz@feddit.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6arrow-down1·1 day agoNah, “the rest of us” is ruining the internet by following the people in the top of the trash pit. You know… nobody is stopping you from self hosting, building a website or digging a gopherhole?
minus-squaresqgl@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·edit-21 day agoMy friends set up a CMS by invite only (people we know IRL). Hundreds of us there and yet only a handful are active. People want to be where the action is (more so than where the quality is). FOMO.
minus-squarethe_wiz@feddit.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 day agoWell, look at it the other way around: Those niche places act like a filter, pretty much alike as the whole internet was about ~20 years ago. Yeah, there may be fewer people around, but those people tend to be quiet a bit more interesting.
Nah, “the rest of us” is ruining the internet by following the people in the top of the trash pit.
You know… nobody is stopping you from self hosting, building a website or digging a gopherhole?
My friends set up a CMS by invite only (people we know IRL). Hundreds of us there and yet only a handful are active.
People want to be where the action is (more so than where the quality is). FOMO.
Well, look at it the other way around:
Those niche places act like a filter, pretty much alike as the whole internet was about ~20 years ago. Yeah, there may be fewer people around, but those people tend to be quiet a bit more interesting.