• quicklime
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    53 months ago

    I can’t help feeling that the real bad news is not that online platforms have been ruined, but that people have been and remain dependent on them.

    • @Blackmist@feddit.uk
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      53 months ago

      Yeah, it’s why a load of people don’t know what bookmarks are for.

      They don’t need to store 50 different shipping sites, it’s all on Amazon. They don’t need a gaming forum for every game, it’s all on Discord. All those blogs and RSS feeds are now Facebook and Twitter.

      It was never meant to be this centralised.

      • @chonglibloodsport@lemmy.world
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        43 months ago

        Just like it’s easy to quit smoking — for a day or two. Much worse is the fact that so many traditional institutions have been supplanted by online ones. Try getting a job for example.