cybervegan on Nostr: nprofile1q…qw6z6 nprofile1q…2wupe Speaking as someone who watched it forming from ...
nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnddaehgu3wwp6kyqpqvmgny82rhj6flwxzgpwvun0vfjx4qrt0nxk2va4z6d00aerun6nqlqw6z6 (nprofile…w6z6) nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnddaehgu3wwp6kyqpql8s55s7efhw5sj3xakynmza5ls94ucknq3c70wm4r8p399zftqxs62wupe (nprofile…wupe) Speaking as someone who watched it forming from early on - in the early 90's - nobody knew what it was going to be like, only the potential. People were actively working towards something new and liberating and *special*. It was a new frontier, and it had such promise.
Everything was amazing, and as new capabilities emerged, it just kept getting better. But along the way, bit by bit (literally!) as corporations got involved, it massively changed direction.
Up until about 2003, it was still pretty good, although the rot was starting to set in, it was barely perceptible, but by 2010 it was already evident the rot had spread too far. In my view, it was mainly the deal that sucking the imperceptible essence out of "users" - profiling and tracking - was the way to "make it pay" that did the worst damage, followed by the proliferation of commercial gate-keepers and rentiers inserting themselves into transactions for everyday things like food, transport, second-hand and brand-new items, and essentially everything else, and skimming a massive portion off as their only real "value add".
There have been a number of attempts to try to reclaim the good bits, which have come and gone, such as Diaspora, but they have been few and far between, and a number of the good bits have in turn been subsumed by the behemoths (e.g. github) and have already or are in the process of "going bad".
Everything was amazing, and as new capabilities emerged, it just kept getting better. But along the way, bit by bit (literally!) as corporations got involved, it massively changed direction.
Up until about 2003, it was still pretty good, although the rot was starting to set in, it was barely perceptible, but by 2010 it was already evident the rot had spread too far. In my view, it was mainly the deal that sucking the imperceptible essence out of "users" - profiling and tracking - was the way to "make it pay" that did the worst damage, followed by the proliferation of commercial gate-keepers and rentiers inserting themselves into transactions for everyday things like food, transport, second-hand and brand-new items, and essentially everything else, and skimming a massive portion off as their only real "value add".
There have been a number of attempts to try to reclaim the good bits, which have come and gone, such as Diaspora, but they have been few and far between, and a number of the good bits have in turn been subsumed by the behemoths (e.g. github) and have already or are in the process of "going bad".