Obviously, the internet has always been a toxic place, (the phrase “flame war” has been around for decades,) but it seems to have gotten so much worse over the last few years. I used to think decentralization of the internet would fix the worst of it, but Lemmy seems to have gotten worse alongside the rest of internet culture, proving me wrong. How do we fix/improve this culture of toxicity?
Agree.
I mean, you can still hop on gophernet and use http only sites with HTML only if you wanted.
If you stay off of the corpo sites, install mullvad, use a different DNS, use ublock with waterfox, also Usenet, somehow, exists still. you can still have a good internet experience. The bots haven’t totally poisoned it yet.
Now in 5 to 10 years, it will truly be destroyed by slop. And nothing left. Thats when us nerds will start having our own underground web thats difficult to access and unknown to many.
Example. The Dreamcast is back online. The community is full of true nerds because its too complex for a normie (but it’s really not that hard actually) to get them up and running.
Also use more open source software. Youll enjoy computing far more.
I agree, everything was truly better then and mostly sucks now, but hey we can at least make the best of it.