renzev@lemmy.world to Lemmy Shitpost@lemmy.worldEnglish · 20 hours agoThe internet kind of sucks right nowlemmy.worldimagemessage-square127linkfedilinkarrow-up1812arrow-down115
arrow-up1797arrow-down1imageThe internet kind of sucks right nowlemmy.worldrenzev@lemmy.world to Lemmy Shitpost@lemmy.worldEnglish · 20 hours agomessage-square127linkfedilink
minus-squaressfckdt@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkarrow-up10·7 hours 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-up3·4 hours 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