honestly with how much i suspect the net is going to be flooded with slop in the near future, i think we're probably going to be heading towards a future where communications are like a mix of Discord and neo-BBS
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The early 2000s simply will not be defeated
aug 10, 2025, 3:11 pm • 0 0 • view
The NetKrash was not a prediction I expected Cyberpunk to be proven right about
aug 10, 2025, 3:10 pm • 1 0 • view
It's possible. But we have a robust anti-spam industry and I can't imagine they don't see the profit motive here.
aug 10, 2025, 3:10 pm • 0 0 • view
I think there's a future where ppl figure out that scaling newsletters/blogs/podcasts on a chain of services doesn't reach quality audiences as well as a low-maintenance destination message board where everything they produce just... lives in clear organization and gets distributed by rss and alert.
aug 10, 2025, 3:15 pm • 2 0 • view
I have been having the same thoughts for a while. While the internet at large, think social media and stuff, will be flooded with AI, people will start creating walled gardens.
aug 10, 2025, 3:28 pm • 0 0 • view
Specifically stuff like you said, but also forums might come back. I know personally I might start cutting off the greater net and become a sorta hermit.
aug 10, 2025, 3:30 pm • 0 0 • view
i think the Next Big Thing for social media will be building explicit webs of trust to cut out the noise i could see people building that on ATProto in the next couple years
aug 10, 2025, 9:44 pm • 8 1 • view
Dead Internet Theory is increasingly the law of social media in particular. The solutions are already breaking through, physical media’s made a comeback in recent years (more for practicality than nostalgia), people are understanding the internet as tool instead of a place
aug 10, 2025, 3:52 pm • 1 1 • view
I’d love to see a de-appification, I don’t see a resurgence of forums coming or a new wave of image boards but anything’s possible. Closed circuits (Discord servers, Telegram channels) will continue steadily growing.
aug 10, 2025, 3:52 pm • 0 0 • view
The open internet has a future but nobody knows what it is yet though open protocols like Bluesky likely have a brighter future than their predecessors/contemporaries that exemplify Dead Internet Law
aug 10, 2025, 3:52 pm • 0 0 • view
That would be for those of us that have already experienced it. A new generation will only know the slop. I think of the younger Gen Z and Gen Alpha kids that already lost typing as a skill. It blows my mind seeing teenagers struggling to type and only using two fingers.
aug 10, 2025, 3:14 pm • 0 0 • view