Remember Ajit Pai? A few months ago, the FCC tried to reverse course and once again instate net neutrality laws. Unfortunately, an appeals court stopped it.

So, if you wonder why the smaller sites you visit take longer to load, sometimes 15 seconds or more, this is why.

After finding Lemmy and the rest of the fediverse, I’ve realized more and more that the internet is still very much fun. It’s just that these new things that were fun in the 00s, and which we got stuck on as they grew worse and worse (Google, Facebook, Apple, Digg/Reddit etc.), was for a long time too hard to get rid of. We 1) either forgot that the fun parts of the internet still existed or just assumed they didn’t and 2) felt locked-in to these services because all our real-life friends were on them still and reluctant to move / understand alternative technologies. But these friends were not on the fun internet to begin with. The internet was a lot smaller before it become extremely mainstream. Do I want to be able to have the best parts of social media with my real life friends? Sure, but until they are ready for the fediverse there are plenty of fun parts for me to visit without them.

No, it used to be a mostly boring desert populated with oases of fun. Hidden from view in obscure forums frequented by 11 people.

It’s basically the same. Instead of forums or newsgroups we’re forced to keep up with anti-corpoate social media, but its the same shit. I have a computer, you have a computer, they talk to each other. What’s changed is how honest the advertisers are.

Im not saying it’s better now, people.