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[–] dangblingus@lemmy.world 78 points 2 years ago (17 children)

This shouldn't be surprising to anyone. And it's a death knell of the internet as we know it. It won't be today or tomorrow, but slowly, over the next few years, expect surface level internet services to be extremely user unfriendly. I expect normies to just accept their fate and pay access fees to literally every website and service they use, while more tech savvy or explorative people might find their way to federated spaces or Usenet, etc.

[–] tonnert@lemmy.world 40 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (6 children)

The silver lining here might also be that the internet that we knew and loved 25 years ago might actually reappear. The 'other' stuff would just become background noise to the ones 'in the know'.

[–] Beliriel@lemmy.world 22 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Lol wouldn't that be epic. IRC becoming a big thing again because discord, whatsapp, and all thr other business social media go to shit.

[–] TheRealGChu@lemm.ee 7 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I can't get into discord. As an old EFnet user, it's just clunky to me? I'm not sure, but it's not sticking for me

[–] Beliriel@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years ago

I was a regular Teamspeak user and Discord is just more friendly than TS imo

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