Wow, the 'enshittification' of the internet is really taking off now. Sites are either already dodgy, or well on their way there!
I know this has been a bit of a slow burn for a while now, but it really feels like it's all coming to a head suddenly.
We really gotta back decentralized platforms if we don't want everything to become an overmonetized hellscape where all information and communication is skewed to suit business interests. I wouldn't pay for Reddit Gold and Twitter Blue but I should send some money to the Lemmy, Kbin and Mastodon folks.
So, twitter, Reddit, Imgur, and now Gfycat are all killing itself
Has the internet bubble finally popped?
The Great Internet Recession™ has begun
This is insane. I wonder what other relatively large internet service will go down.
Apparently PornHub already lost 80% of their traffic due to age verification laws. I'll add the source when I'll get back to it.
Edit: https://www.theverge.com/2023/7/3/23782776/pornhub-blocks-mississippi-virginia-age-verification-laws
Edit 2: Maybe I misunderstood, see below comments
I feel like that can't be true, I imagine a huge amount of pornhubs users are international
It’s a poorly written sentence (not surprising as it’s The Verge lol) but I think they mean they lost 80% of traffic from Louisiana when they started enforcing age verification in that state which is why they now just block access entirely to states that enact these laws instead of bothering with the age verification.
Reading the article would make me believe it's 80% of traffic from Louisiana and not overall. So they will be fine lol.
Still Though, when Pornhub falls, that's when we know were in trouble.
Had no idea this was even at risk of shutting down...
It’s like the enshitification cycle somehow synced! https://pluralistic.net/2023/01/21/potemkin-ai/#hey-guys
Not a coincidence. End of cheap money era.
Yeah, no - it’s definitely not a coincidence, that was said tongue in cheek https://www.theregister.com/AMP/2023/04/07/vc_funding_falls/
On Baconreader it wouldn't show a gif, it would just be link, which was pretty good.
His name was Bacon Reader.. His name was Bacon Reader..
Oh sweet, it's dot.com 2.0. Grab your popcorn, it's time for the internet to implode... again! Never ever underestimate shareholders' willingness to self-destruct a product for short-term profit.
It's like the second implosion in a many weeks
Next one will be human instrumentality!
Similar to what happened after the last dot com crash, it'll be interesting to see how the internet evolves and what comes next.
Damn, and end of an era...
The times, they are a changin'...
I've watched the internet evolve since I first logged on to CompuServe in 1990. I don't think I have seen such a dramatic and fast change since the beginning of the WWW over crap like CompuServ.
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How did you get that bitchin username graphic?
Googled "fancy text generator" and picked one at random lol
I see you fixed the "I" so it doesn't read like a "|"
The color was bugging me more than anything lol
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What the hell is going on?
Everything is falling down:
Imgur doesn't even load for me on Firefox Mobile + uBlockOrigin. It also tries to redirect me to their broken front end if I just want the .jpg file. I absolutely hate them and wish people would stop using it.
Do ya remember photobucket? .. Pepperidge Farm remembers.
The death of the old internet continues..
Most likely the new internet. That, where every website was created with money in mind.
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