Post #545158
2026-03-06 02:25 UTC
I mean some shit you find online is pretty grim but when I was a kid I knew the internet was for adults and didn’t expect everything to be catered to me. Now the status quo seems to be “every website must be kid/advertiser friendly and PG13 by default, everything else must be locked behind a verification prompt”. How did we get here?
Replies (2)
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@Croquette@sh.itjust.works 2026-03-06 02:38
It’s just a facade to justify mining more data for power, influence and money. Simple as that.
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@Auli@lemmy.ca 2026-03-06 03:55
We let 5 companies control the internet. Instead of being the distributed thing it was dreamed up to be we allowed it to consolidate.