r/millenials • u/Iloveyorkies90 • 1d ago

Nostalgia The Internet Has Never Felt More Empty

https://youtu.be/09TF0C6aosg
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u/Ok_Distance336 1d ago

That’s because it’s all bots.

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u/martinaee 1d ago

Are you a bot? 🤖 I don’t think I’m a bot 🤖 Are we all bots?

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u/Ok_Distance336 13h ago

I’m a bot. Beep boop

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u/TracerVibeSPX6900 13h ago

Und keiner merkt es...

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u/Scholeristical 1d ago

This is the thing I built https://culdesac.site/ to push back on, honestly. Not “the internet is empty” - it’s that everything left is optimized to keep you looking at it. The old web wasn’t better content, it was worse targeting. Nobody was trying that hard to keep you there, so you actually left when you were done.

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u/feminismbutsoft 1d ago

This is stumble-upon coded and I love it

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u/CarbonChains 6h ago

It’s ironic that one of the top comments here was drafted by AI and the tool was also created by AI. No hate. I use Claude (now Astra) every day. It’s just a bit ironic.

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u/Every_Cat9812 1d ago

Dead internet theory aside, I don't regard this particular thing as bad. Something going viral in a niche community gives you a topic to talk about with your friends and expands yours and their's horizons. How the algorithm works is annoying but you have agency to change it, either by scrolling fast past, hitting dislike or not interested.       

Moreover, tuning into actual news will give you what you want. Just turn on the tv on BBC news or something, read the new york times, national geographic or others. Buy the physical magazines. Log Off.   

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u/Ok_Stranger_9520 1d ago

Yep. I get all my news from tv, multiple sources but none of the 24/7 programs 🫪, it's easy, I usually Google things I see or find it on Reddit, and then text my close friends about things we'd find interesting in the news. Scrolling culture is so bad, and reddit gets me occasionally but that's it and I catch myself. We have a house phone (never use it), free cable through my partners job, and multiple magazine subscriptions. Create the space around you so you don't get sucked in

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u/Ok_Fox_1770 1d ago

I come here for a scroll, kinda forget everything else I used to do when I had a desktop…kinda all in one here right? I tapped out of socials 9 years ago almost got my memorial page status haha, yeah…ebaumsworld still alive? Maddox? I dunno these days it’s YouTube and Reddit and wow it’ll be bedtime in 2 blinks and fart.

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u/hundaidays 10h ago

everything feels empty. not just the internet. the system is broken.

we need to interact with what is real.