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The Last Page Of The Internet [defector.com] (defector.com)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by doofusmagoo@sh.itjust.works to c/technology

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The internet’s best resources are almost universally volunteer run and donation based, like Wikipedia and The Internet Archive. Every time a great resource is accidentally created by a for-profit company, it is eventually destroyed, like Flickr and Google Reader. Reddit could be what Usenet was supposed to be, a hub of internet-wide discussion on every topic imaginable, if it wasn’t also a private company forced to come up with a credible plan to make hosting discussions sound in any way like a profitable venture.

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[–] azertyfun@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 1 year ago

Communities can archive their data and wiki/FAQs, which is nice, and hopefully they'll have better SEO than astrosurfing articles about the same subject (hahahaha jk jk we know that's impossible as google has seemingly no interest in prioritizing organic content anymore).

But the alternatives don't offer anything even remotely close to /top?t=all. This feature of reddit is the single greatest thing that has ever happened to the concept of "getting into a hobby", and just like that it's gone.