renzev@lemmy.world to Lemmy Shitpost@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 months agoThe internet kind of sucks right nowlemmy.worldimagemessage-square146linkfedilinkarrow-up1957arrow-down115
arrow-up1942arrow-down1imageThe internet kind of sucks right nowlemmy.worldrenzev@lemmy.world to Lemmy Shitpost@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 months agomessage-square146linkfedilink
minus-squaressfckdt@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkarrow-up10·2 months agoOh my dude, that second ship sailed decades ago. Time was there was really just one place (maybe two) where you could find an answer to a question. (Usenet mostly.) Now there’s easily two dozen at least, from SO/SE, Quora, Yahoo Answers, all the way to Reddit subs… The balkanization of information. It screwed the knowledge of the public, but it made a few people super rich. Whee
minus-squareboonhet@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilinkarrow-up5·2 months agoYeah but those places were still publicly indexed, discord is private
Oh my dude, that second ship sailed decades ago.
Time was there was really just one place (maybe two) where you could find an answer to a question. (Usenet mostly.)
Now there’s easily two dozen at least, from SO/SE, Quora, Yahoo Answers, all the way to Reddit subs…
The balkanization of information. It screwed the knowledge of the public, but it made a few people super rich. Whee
Yeah but those places were still publicly indexed, discord is private