Cameron
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Maybe the internet being mostly five corporate websites for the past 15 years was a really bad idea.
Jarno@Botiplz we need to take it back
Max Leibman has moved!@Botiplz I’m just glad none of those five corporations was able to execute on their original idea, that it would mostly be ONE corporate website…
CanyonR@Botiplz This may be true for the consumer internet, but for the corporate/business internet it’s closer to 8 or 9 and only like 4 of those overlap. So there’s that…. 🤷
Joseph (filthy on opsec)@Botiplz But was shareholder value increased?! thats really the only thing that matters.
Rob in IA@Botiplz I'm ready to go off-grid to Usenet and Gopher whenever everyone else is.
The Doctor@Botiplz Gee. Who would have thought. :/
KristFist
Shantara@Botiplz This old infographic says it all about the state of modern internet, and it stops in 2016. How many websites constitute a half of total internet traffic today? 5? 10?
Honest Charlie@Botiplz I heartily agree.
Dwight Williams (💉 x9)+😷🇨🇦@Botiplz Yeah, maybe.
This is why my ISP is a co-op.
DeusPeople/Humans are just, well…selfish. Instead of supporting what we used to call ‘Webmasters’ (aka site owners), they jumped ship to the FREE platforms offered by these five corporate websites.
Admin: “May I put ads? At least for the servers?”
Users: “How dare you!”
Admin: “Donation please?”
Users: “Hahaha. Why are you running a site when you can’t afford it.”
Technology/servers can always be upgraded if there’s funding/donation etc but when you can’t, people will jump ship and site owners give up.
/Coming from someone who used to run a content aggregation site that had close to 100k registered members.
Christo@Botiplz
Before then it was good
Before then it was good
Chris Gioran 💔@Botiplz The other shoe is figuring out that the whole infrastructure that makes the internet is also run by like 3 companies.
The Alchemist@Botiplz Maybe 😂😂😂
Martha
Mamala Bay Life 
🛶@Botiplz Switched from twitter to mastodon and reddit to lemmy all within the same year. who says old people aren't flexible? (yoga helps!)
Darwin Woodka
Hyperi0n
Brian McMurray@Botiplz absolutely right!
Matt He/Him 
@Botiplz This is absolutely a tinfoil hat theory but it's interesting to me that only the liberal leaning social media sites are all getting destroyed at the same time
Andreas Ringdal@Botiplz and the worst part is that neither of them are able to get the users to pay for their services.
@Botiplz Yeah definately. I'm reminded of that every time Amazon Web Services crashes and most of the internet shuts down for a while. XD. I'd say we'd done goofed.
David Cuthbert@Botiplz Anyone else missing the little hobbyist sites on Geocities? Sure, they were 0/10 on design, but 9/10 on information...
Adam R. Wood@Botiplz "...each filled with screenshots of the other four", as @pluralistic commonly quotes.
Cory Doctorow
Krissy Strange Nerd@Botiplz I dunno, I just asked Alexa whether this was a bad idea. She says it's fine and Google agrees, soooooo...
Marcus Sanford@Botiplz Somehow we went from “everyone can have a blog” to “oh shit everyone can instead fight on Facebook” within a couple of years
Zeolith 
@Botiplz of course it was!
Jeff Atwood@Botiplz and only having 10 possible television channels, back in the day? 📺
Agitatra 🚲🐻🌿🇪🇺🇺🇦@Botiplz The point is, the internet has been decentralized for decades, but because of that using it was complicated. So when the big players offered a more convenient way, everybody took the bait. Not forced at gunpoint but by laziness.