As brands look to hold onto the internet of the past, the term “community” will become a loaded word.
  • EarlGrey@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
    191·
    2 days ago

    …smaller communities

    So like it was before the dawn of Reddit and social media?

    Sign me the fuck up. I miss my dumb little websites with a dodgy layout full of terribly cropped gifs.

  • obbeel@lemmy.eco.brEnglish
    13·
    2 days ago

    I firmly believe that connecting people to their IRL friends is an important part of the potential of the Internet, as it is shown by Facebook, for example.

    But I also believe there are people looking to connect with new people and finding a community where they can express themselves wholly. I think the current Internet is weak in this regard, weaker than it has been before, but I think it’s possible to build a place where people can connect.

    • Fluffy Kitty Cat@slrpnk.netEnglish
      3·
      2 days ago

      Pretty much. I should be able tobmake friends with any human on earth with an internet connection. That this is still hard is something we need to fix

    • garretble@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4·
      2 days ago

      I have a friends Discord I set up a year before Covid, and for about a year only 3 people used it, mainly to play some games together.

      But when Covid hit, it obviously gained some traction. And now it’s THE place I interact with friends since I’ve long ditched the likes of Facebook.

      I keep going back and forth on whether or not to possibly set up a Mastodon server for friends. The hardest part would be convincing people to use it. But it could just be like our little shared space that could still interact with the wider world. It’d be kinda cool to have a Local feed be just people you know in real life.

      • Fluffy Kitty Cat@slrpnk.netEnglish
        1·
        2 days ago

        A small friend group is best suited for chat programs (discord et al.) But if you want to expand the group a mastodon server is a good idea

  • cley_faye@lemmy.worldEnglish
    25·
    3 days ago

    Sounds a lot like the past. And, actually, a bit like the current internet. Custom websites, feed syndication, etc. didn’t disappear, they just shrank in the face of behemoth platforms.

  • mtchristo@lemm.eeEnglish
    61·
    2 days ago

    We should be able to bootstrap activityPub to GeoCities websites. WordPress integration is taking a long time.

    • aeshna_cyanea@lemm.eeEnglish
      2·
      2 days ago

      That’s backwards, activitypub is higher level than websites. And you can literally make a website already and embed an activitypub stream

  • ERROR: Earth.exe has crashed@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    222·
    3 days ago

    The future of internet is you have to ask your government for permission before you can visit foreign websites.

    There is no longer “Internet”

    It will be suceeded by:

    • Freedom Net (where “Antifa” is Banned, and you need a swastica armband to get access)

    • Euronet (where UK just left, again)

    • United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (they noped out of the UK, and re-re-joined the EU)

    • Putin’s #1 Digital Fan Club

    • 中华人民解放互联网 (People’s Liberated Internet)

    • And that’s it, Canada and Mexico got Invaded by the US; while UK, EU, Russia, China all fought over the remaining of the world

    (okay maybe my worldbuilding is ridiculous, but the world is collapsing and I want to write a story about my predictions of the future mm’kay? 😉)

    • Kilgore Trout@feddit.itEnglish
      3·
      2 days ago

      Your worldbuilding is in SciFi classics tier, but it’s missing all of the global South.

      Australia is already more locked out, but its Internet can only exist in function of US.

      • MangoCats@feddit.itEnglish
        5·
        2 days ago

        The darknets are here, have been here, but are by definition: dark, so unless you’re in one they’re useless to you.

        First rule of darknet membership: don’t talk about the darknet.

      • metaldream@sopuli.xyzEnglish
        2·
        2 days ago

        Unless something’s changed in the last few years, the darknet is too difficult for normies to use.

      • ERROR: Earth.exe has crashed@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        3·
        2 days ago

        They wouldn’t.

        EU would have to defend Greenland from the USA (and given the already huge amount of US miliary presense, they would probably fail). South America would be a warzone between US and resistance forces funded by EU, but since they also have to fund the defence against Russia, they don’t have the fund to fight two fronts, so they focus more on the EU-Russia front. UK will have to also defend itself from the US military that can launch an attack from Greenland at any moment (good luck, they left the EU lmfao). Russia and China relationship doesn’t do so well and they fight over Mongolia and the “Middle East” (for lack of a better term). Australia joins China as a Special Administrative region because USA gone fascist, and EU is already fighting two fronts, so they eventually got absorbed in China’s sphere of influence. Japan is now a warzone between Vanguardist “Socialist” China, and Fascist USA.

        And Taiwan is… wait what’s a “Taiwan”? Oh that boring island that has totally always been under PLA control and totally never had any de facto autonomy under the name ROC, like ever, that Taiwan? Long live CCP! (/s 😉)

        (Actually, maybe I should write a story about all this… 👀)

      • MangoCats@feddit.itEnglish
        1·
        2 days ago

        Panama, Greenland, after that might as well take the rest of Central America, move all the people out to the Galapagos Islands and build an all inclusive ocean to ocean resort complex.

  • Lettuce eat lettuce@lemmy.mlEnglish
    22·
    3 days ago

    Check out Neocities, a great community of indie web fans, built in the spirit of the old GeoCities sites.

    Some really great sites there, it really captures that late 90’s to early 2000’s internet vibes.

    • Dizzy Devil Ducky@lemm.eeEnglish
      4·
      3 days ago

      Definitely depends on the site because I’ve seen some impressive modern looking sites in the past, but a lot of sites I find on there definitely encapsulate that vibe in a great way.

  • samus12345@lemm.eeEnglish
    381·
    3 days ago

    It is for me, but I have my doubts that the majority will avoid the corporate-owned spaces.

    • LovableSidekick@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      2 days ago

      Depends on where you live, but in the US I think there will be a sharp divide between two general groups: a minority who put some thought into what they do, and the vast meme-ified masses who accept whatever is laid out for them.

    • MangoCats@feddit.itEnglish
      4·
      3 days ago

      I think it’s always going to be a sort of long-tail phenomenon, with most people involved in the biggest platforms, but a large number of small platforms that attract a minority of the overall population.

  • /home/pineapplelover@lemm.eeEnglish
    11·
    3 days ago

    Small communities where one can talk about specific subjects? Man there’s something like that already and people can run it from their own computers too, forgot the name though.

  • MyOpinion@lemm.eeEnglish
    303·
    3 days ago

    I think by now we have figured out the majority of people are garbage and you only want to spend time with a select group. Discord seems to have this figured out.

        • dontbelasagne@lemmy.worldEnglish
          63·
          3 days ago

          I don’t think we have. Some people theorise that the tower of babel really happened. Whether you’re religous or not doesn’t really matter but it shows that during the earliest recorded days humanity wanted to help each other and everyone by building a tower. There are theories as to why god didn’t allow the tower to reach them so then the blame is put on god, not humanity.

          • doingthestuff@lemy.lolEnglish
            1·
            3 days ago

            The theological explanation I’ve been hearing recently for that is that God didn’t want humanity to be a monolithic entity, but rather to have many different flavors and cultures. Supporting evidence is that in Revelation there is reference to all of the nations and tribes on the Earth being represented in heaven. Meaning that those cultures are retained, minus the worst parts of them. It’s actually a great argument for intentional diversity and allowing people groups to maintain their uniqueness rather than assimilate into a global conglomerate.

            • dontbelasagne@lemmy.worldEnglish
              2·
              3 days ago

              But to play devil’s advocate (pun very much intended) in the gnostic scripture of the nag Hamadi it straight up says whoever parctipated in the tower of babel will go to hell. Why punish people when they thought they were doing good? And the nag hamadi also says whatever happens in the world is god’s will. Meaning every single event in history whether good or bad is because god wanted it that way. So according to the nag hamadi god wanted all the wars, all the climate change, all the confusion, all the rape and murder is because god wanted it. Why aren’t we born with knowledge of every language if god wanted diverse languages? That way people will choose the language they speak rather than it being forced upon them from wherever they’re born. The nag hamadi actually answers every existential question if you read it objectively without any pre existing beliefs in my personal view. We don’t have any free will on earth according to the nag hamadi and this is the only universe that exists.

              • doingthestuff@lemy.lolEnglish
                11·
                3 days ago

                There are a lot of gnostic writings but they don’t hold much value. They were essentially rejected when they were written. You did ask an interesting question though, why we aren’t born with knowledge of every language if God wanted to diverse languages.

                I’ve read theology about this as well, and the answer that I’m hearing at the moment regarding that has to do with the speaking in tongues that was released at Pentecost. On that occasion, there were people from many other regions assembled in Jerusalem and when they began to speak in tongues, people from foreign lands heard their own native tongue spoken clearly. The way it’s described, it seems even the dialects were correct.

                It’s not clear if that was a miracle of being able to speak in a language they didn’t understand, or if it was a miracle of understanding. But it does seem to be a reversal of the confusion that was caused by the multiple languages at the tower of Babel, yet retaining the diversity and also creating unity. The inferred implication is that the same kind of understanding will be available in eternity when all of the brokenness of this world is restored with a new heaven and new Earth.

    • dontbelasagne@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      3 days ago

      It depends on the discord. I joined a discord where the most narcissistic people were there and they singled me out for whatever reason because I wasn’t just simply going with their thinking. There was another member that thought like me but their own narcissi tendencies made up a conspiracy theory that somehow that was my alt. I didn’t even know the guy irl. It’s a shame as I was interested in the subject matter of the discord but I guess if enough village idiots own a discord, the smart villager is seen as the idiot.