Is the internet actually dead nowadays?

[johnnymcivor]

I don’t believe the Dead Internet Theory, but the internet is so fucking bad that I had to start this forum just to get something usable.

Right now social media is collapsing (or at least hemorrhaging).

I Miss Forums (And the Decentralized Internet)

Yeah. If you spend time around brown people, you can hear them watching the lowest IQ content slop imaginable. But I think the very premise of using an algorithm is wrong-headed from the start. Think about it like this: Let’s say that the algorithm updates the content on a website in rounds. In Round 1, the algorithm selects for the most effective slop content. So the people making genuine content have less eyes on them, whereas the people who make slop have more eyes. In Round 2, the algori…

AI is cancer by default. That plus heuristics like upvotes and follower counts ensure that there is no intellectual space. It’s just a bunch of e-celebs with boring ass takes that appeal to the lowest common denominator.