remember when the internet was fun and full of possibilities? yknow how now it's a miserable hell? reminder that what happened is that capitalism colonized it and now it's just as shitty as everything else capitalism's got its hooks in
like. seo, algorithms, targeted advertising: these are all DESIGNED to keep you from finding some weirdo's X-Files fan page or geocities star trek web ring. I would 1000x rather find those than tweets from the u.s. president, yet here we are #thankscapitalism
@skirts It's not just capitalism by a long shot. There was and is also a willful disregard on the part of programmers and designers for natural human communication, knowledge sharing and embedded logical fallacies.
It was designed by people with a tech aptitude who refused to accommodate those without it and as such baked-in social dysfunction at a code level. A lot of online shit is the end result of less tech-aware peeps working around deliberate gatekeeping from the old guard.
