I used to feel like the internet was impossibly vast and unfathomably deep and now I really only visit bsky, wikipedia, and YouTube and I can't think of anything else still useable
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It used to be like that when it was just browsergames, their adjacent IRC servers and forums for hyperspecific interests and not 3 websites each posting screenshots of the other 2.
I mean.. yeah.... there are more niche sites out there still chugging away (neocities, dreamwidth, ao3, ect) but I totally get what you mean. Bc the internet is so accessible now, everything feels like its in a rushed pace. So the idea of trying to keep up in other spaces feels very exhausting.
So because logging in and trying to keep up with a network that never sleeps feels like work, you stop trying to keep up with everything and thin down the list. Even the fun sites!
Like I can't remember the last time I was on the clickcritters website (formerly pokeplushies) but its been years.
That too, but I used to keep up with blogs and gaming news but all of those got bought up by pivot to video vulture capitalists and now they mostly post ads and guides I have no interest in.
That's a good point too, a lot of those bought-out websites got forced to be something they're not (and often repelled their own audiences). It's a sad thing to see.
I feel like it used to be. When people could learn html and make their own sites, and you'd link from that site yo things you liked so people could explore. Or a video hosted by Bing and encoded onto your page.
Back before corporations consolidated all the content into a handful of places.
There's the parts of the internet we don't normally access with browsers like discord, steam, game servers, etc. But yeah much smaller list of urls being visited on average for me compared to ten years ago
Yeah i used to follow dozens of actively updating webcomics and comedy writers. Now I use, like 4 sites because everything else is filled with horrible, invasive Ads and slop
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Like I can't remember the last time I was on the clickcritters website (formerly pokeplushies) but its been years.
People still do these things. We've just let the damned algorithms reduce us to consumers.
Back before corporations consolidated all the content into a handful of places.