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The Internet used to be a safe space for exploring and connecting, but now it feels suffocating due to constant AI tools, ads, and monetization. Users have limited agency and feel overexposed. Companies are pushing AI features that are often annoying or useless. Some companies are marketing active refusal of AI. People are losing their ability to make choices and think for themselves online.

The Internet isn’t Fun Anymore

THAT’S WHAT I’M SAYING! We need more individual websites. We shouldn’t have like 8 websites being what 99% of the Internet is. I hold the firm belief that everyone should make something. Whether that be an art piece, song, video, website, program, or robot, everyone should create.
I want segmented forums to be brought back as well. All forum websites I’ve been on have been excellently themed and full of personality, meanwhile Reddit has become the main place to go for forums, and the most you can really do is change a few colors. Segmented forums are also much friendlier, as while you will interact with less people overall, the interactions you do have will be ever so much better. There is so little toxicity in these forums, as it’s much more like a community than a subreddit, where you can go anywhere in only a few clicks. Kurzgesagt made a video on this.
If you’re reading this, make something. It doesn’t have to be massive, it doesn’t have to be good, but creativity is a skill, not a talent. Anyone can be creative.
GitHub Pages, Neocities, Krita, Inkscape, Furnace, LMMS, OpenMPT, FreeCAD, literally every single programming language, and so much more, are all available for free. So why are we less creative?

I can say with a fairly high degree of certainty that the Internet, in fact, did NOT use to be a safe space for exploring and connecting.

Honestly, I noticed the first sign of trouble all the way back in 2017. I made a cheap politically incorrect joke thats ultimately rather harmless, where as before it would have gotten me a bunch of ‘lmao’ replies, I got a whole ton of hate.

I find most AIs boring as well. A times I’ve asked something to these chatbots but I don’t get really what I am looking for.

On the contrary, there are probably more opportunities for communication and fun to be had on the internet today vs any point previously in internet history. Sure some games have been shut down or sequestered, but there are others in their places. You just have to do some digging.