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[–] [email protected] 205 points 5 days ago (13 children)

There’s (mostly) nothing wrong with the technology. It’s the enshittification and profit motive behind nearly everything that’s the real problem.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 4 days ago (5 children)

I think that having the convenience of an easy-to-use, always-online device in your pocket at all times is inherently addicive. The profit motive just compounds this issue on purpose to extract wealth, but it is more of a symptom of a larger issue.

Humans, nor any other animal on this planet have ever existed in an era that they can be always connected to everyone in their species at all times; even having that ability at all is revolutionary and unprecidented.

It used to be that the only people you talk to would be people in your local area, but now a significant portion of the percentage of people that an average person is likely to encounter on a daily basis is via means where their real character is hidden behind a carefully curated mask.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 days ago (4 children)

Whales kind of have their own internet.

[–] retrolasered 8 points 4 days ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago

Waterworld Wide Web

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