2026-02-23 20:28 UTC
The end of the anonymous web is nigh. We may not like it, but it's probably the only way. We used to joke in the 90s about requiring an internet driver's license before allowing people on Usenet. It might actually be happening.
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@OctopusNemeses@lemmy.world 2026-02-23 23:50
The end social media maybe. It's fundamentally broken anyways. They can keep breaking it worse for all I care. We're not meant to be ruled by algorithms. It was a stupid idea to listen to antisocial neckbeards selling the world on how they could master sociology with graph theory. These are the same geniuses who deride soft sciences as not real science.
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@Cherry@piefed.social 2026-02-24 00:28
TBF in recent years there’s little of it worth visiting.
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@DrunkenPirate@feddit.org 2026-02-23 20:53
And it might be a good decision in the dawn of the bot-internet. It forces even bots to be traceable to some real person or getting no access to the mentioned platforms. May be even bot-free platforms