Hello Basement dwellers!

I think this video by Technology Connections on youtube is worth a watch. It feels like it speaks to the way we interact with the web, and the way this community runs counter to the culture. As far as old person yelling at cloudsing goes, I do think the way we interact with algorithms can be harmful and that we need to teach this next generation about how algorithms work, the dangerous they present, and how to navigate the web without them.

Anyway I'm done monologuing, give it a watch and let me know your thoughts! Do you think there is a future where we move away from algorithms, or is AI only going to continue to make the issue worse, and push us past the point of no return?

omg i love mister connections ... just finished watching this video and tbh! i my prediction is that there will be a divide in the internet. i think that there are many people who are too lost in the sauce algorithmically speaking and that there will always be a subset of people who prefer to use the internet that way. likewise, there will always be communities of people (like this one and many others) who will be more drawn to the more deliberate methods of curated feeds and personal websites.

As disclaimer I didn't watch the video in question though I have seen other videos by him. The internet like any technology is likely to fall out of the fashion just as cd and print newspapers largely have.

When using the internet intentionality is paramount, it's really a case of sink or swim. And Web 2.0 is in it's death throes as it's entered a feedback loop of bots/ai telling algorithms what's popular or desirable. On top of this AI is not only hard to regulate but largely unregulated which is causing increasingly fake content, hence you're going to see more 'power users'(intenional user) leave popular websites. Moreover if the search engine only shows what bots like they're just going to quit using internet 2.0 as much or entirely imo.