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[–] [email protected] 80 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (9 children)

The Internet has become soulless

Gee, I wonder what could've contributed to that.

Edit: In case the screenshot doesn't sync to all instances, the screenshot is OP's article immediately asking to send notifications to my device for a site I've never been to before that moment. If you want to know what killed the internet we used to know, it's shit like this. As soon as a page asks to send me notifications, I immediately lose trust in that page and have no inclination to spend any more time there.

For taking about big corpos disrespecting the user experience, this is certainly an ironic move.

[–] [email protected] 35 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (8 children)

Hey. I was watching this thread and created an account just to say that you are right! Bombarding a user with popup stuff is one of the things i criticized in my blog. I completely forgot that i turned on this setting when i set it up (whoops). I changed the "notification-question" to only show once after you visited the site for the fifth time.

Thanks for visiting my site though and for pointing this out to me! <3

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Really interesting article! Most importantly to me, it has spurred some really good conversations.

Personally, I don’t think early web is the answer. Modern web usage has allowed for better accessibility to all ages and types. Content aggregation allows for (but doesn’t guarantee) more views and opinions. There are certainly elements we can get back from the early days, but I think we still need work to find a perfect web

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Thanks!

Of course. There are so many features of the modern web that i'd never give up (speed, security ,accessibility, api's [that one's ironic nowadays], dev tools, webgl,...).

Like you said, a great solution would be to combine those newer and older elements in order to create a great web for all. I think that the fediverse is already a great step into the right direction.

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