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So, dead internet theory seems to get new supporting evidence every day. Where does it go from here? (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
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It seems like having a website open and available on the internet is getting practically impossible to manage, with bots accounting for more and more traffic. AI has gotten to a point where it can circumvent just about any form of captcha, sooooo, what? Does "the internet just get abandoned in favor of some other, better technology that we hope crops up? Does it fade away? Do the real nerds start their own separate internet, and not let companies in? I donno, food for thought I guess.

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[–] Nemo@slrpnk.net 113 points 1 day ago (4 children)

Do the real nerds start their own separate internet, and not let companies in?

We're already doing it.

[–] Zos_Kia@jlai.lu 10 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

In Snowcrash, the internet has been so abused that it is basically unusable and terribly unsafe, what with feral botnets and AI running wild.

So it's just kind of abandoned by people in favor of the Metaverse. Funny idea, and if you look at the current state of Usenet you can see how credible it is.

[–] Nemo@slrpnk.net 8 points 17 hours ago

I like how it's described in Anathem, where it takes a specialized skill set and tools to extract signal from noise on the Reticulum.

[–] Plum@lemmy.world 54 points 1 day ago (1 children)

There are dozens of us. And I love it here.

[–] ByteJunk@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

Oh yeah, easily a handful, maybe more.

[–] WhiteOakBayou@lemmy.world 17 points 1 day ago

Everyone start using project gemini (obviously Google named it's AI that because we were getting too popular. The slow and small Internet is what we want. Be the change. Write weird blog posts pseudonymously

[–] classic@fedia.io 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

how do we join this we?

[–] Deceptichum@quokk.au 1 points 6 hours ago

I believe they’re implying the Fediverse.