If we want online discourse to improve, we need to move beyond the big platforms.

We’re in a very strange moment for the internet. We all know it’s broken. That’s not news. But there’s something in the air—a vibe shift, a sense that things are about to change.

  • nucleative@lemmy.worldEnglish
    72·
    1 year ago

    Oh the irony, I opened the site which has no less than 3 popups and it immediately fried my mobile browser. I had to kill the tab.

    • tinkeringidiot@lemmy.worldEnglish
      12·
      1 year ago

      My pihole guaranteed that my experience remained pristine. The author didn’t make any money from my visit, but their income loss is a sacrifice I’m willing to make.

      Which is really what the whole problem here boils down to.

    • nossaquesapao@lemmy.eco.brEnglish
      10·
      1 year ago

      And people ask why we use adblocks… my potato computer can’t even browse the web without blocking as much stuff as I can.

      • frezik@midwest.socialEnglish
        4·
        1 year ago

        I use pihole at home, but when I take my laptop out and about, I sometimes notice its fan going wild. Shut down the tab I’m reading and it calms down. What the hell are running on these sites?

        • nossaquesapao@lemmy.eco.brEnglish
          1·
          1 year ago

          I remember one time wwhen I was browsing reddit for a few minutes (booted righ before, doing nothing else, fedora os, minimum stuff installed, no unusual activity in the process list, automatic updates disabled) and noticed my fans spinning a lot, so I opened the system monitor to check what was happening. It was showing high cpu usage in a firefox process, and it registered 40bg of downloaded data!

          It never happened again, so I guess it was some sort of bug they fixed, but still, it was something so bizarre to see.