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  • The personalized, colorful web pages became streamlined, conforming to modern design standards and sacrificing individuality for uniformity.

    There are some pretty big advantages to 'modern design standards.' For one, they make the Internet a less hostile place to users with accessibility needs. I don't have problems viewing clashing colors, flying gifs, jumbled pages with no sanity, etc, but a hell of a lot of people with various disabilities sure do. I don't want to even think about how screen readers try to deal with pages like that. Web1.0 offered absolutely nothing for those users who needed accessibility.

  • Blog writer with vague complaint and no solutions stumbles across popular headline - more at 11.

    The issue at play is the big corporate companies, that pretended to be public services, had their venture capital dry up and felt pressure to become profitable. The subsequent monetization and censorship within those systems had significant impact on the quality of content, but outside of those systems the internet has continued to flourish. I suggest the author get off of Reddit/Meta/TwitX, use a better search engine than Google, and start checking out the Fediverse.

    Remember kids, the big social media companies will always want you to think that they are the entirety of the internet. But the internet is not a network of machines. It's a network of human minds, and no organization will ever be able to contain the raw chaos that is the collective force of human imagination.

  • The internet sucks and I hate it.. until I stopped using the platforms I don't like and started using the ones that give me hope. I don't care anymore if it's not the biggest thing on the internet it's still more people than I would ever reach irl.

  • Come to think of it, are there any noteworthy sites besides tumblr that let you customize web pages like those latter two screenshots? Say what you will about the aesthetic, it definitely has personality.

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