I do miss that early internet, it was more discovery and exploration and much less doomscrolling.

and I agree that corporations destroyed it.

i realised that the response StumbleUpon cannot exist nowadays,is because internet is just a handful of sites rather than countless small ones. God StumbleUpon was superior to wherever we have now

you half joke, but there’s no doubt AI controlled drones are a thing already (or going to be within a year).

given that drones can be jammed now. Ukraine has been using tethered drones to avoid it, and the next step is to give them a gpu and run ai models internally,

I wouldn’t be surprised if military drone usage data is being used to train some models.

slight proof for this is Russia putting tires on top of airplanes to trick AI, which means they after confident AI war drones are a thing already.

i think even without capitalism, social media works better on scale (even federated social media, does so but decentralised). you will join the bigger systems, and those systems are more likely to grow if they are bigger…

they will be much less toxic without capitalism though

We’re dealing with brain dead people either way, just in one case it is easier to dispose them

i still don’t follow you,

how is it that you don’t mean what your said. and assuming you meant what you said is wrong?

Same, not because the intellectual bit, just regular depression

so complaining that they aren’t the first one to say this, doesn’t mean that you’re complaining that they aren’t the first to say this?

[reaching across the fourth wall] are you just trolling?

do you need a detailed tutorial to get from A to B?

You really think you’re the first one, much less the only one, to say that? Really?

just because someone wasn’t the first to say something, doesn’t mean they shouldn’t say it

i think the difference is that before the internet was a social mesh of countless websites.

while today it’s just a handful of social media sites.

yhea, it’s capitalism, but social media is the main tool capitalism used.

their hate for minorities is greater than whatever positive emotions they can have towards the country.