I think the internet will get worse in the future; someone gets offended by everything, nobody lives without being criticized here.
Regions will be walled off by censorship / content laws, freely accessible information will be a thing of the past, you’ll have to pay a subscription for anything you want to do, and you will own nothing.
Nah you’ll still get free information, it’ll just be misinformation.
So no change, then?
Example: CNN. Anything not a headline requires a subscription plan.
You’re not thinking nearly dystopian enough. Want to play a game? Need a cloud gaming subscription. Want to send an email? Add Gmail to your Google subscription for $5.99 a month. Want enough speed to stream higher than 720p video? Gotta pay your ISP for the bandwidth and YouTube (Google again!) for the access. You will rent everything from the system.
I’m starting to see this amongst my techie friends: invite only enclaves. Like, using matrix or signal chats that are only by invite; Jellyfin servers for streaming, again, among friends. Group cloud services like nextcloud, mail servers cut off from email at large… Internet-like services, but for small groups.
It won’t be global anymore, the USA will have its own local-version, china, Europe, Russia too. The pressure on manipulative social media will increase, meta, alphabet etc will be banned more and more. As part of this WWW3, sea cables will be cut, causing outages.
Yes this exactly. Local and smaller due to politics and (global) wars
We will enter a period where you aren’t allowed online unless you present a government issued identification as proof of age and/or national origin.
Everyone will have to reveal their true identity with selfies and photo ID uploads.
VPNs will be outlawed.
Just look at the stuff the UK and Australian governments, as well as many states in the USA, are doing.
I can see me using TailsOS more frequently than I do now and giving up my smartphone for more analog methods.
Great Firewall of America
Great Firewall of EU
Going to a dark alleyway to pay a hooded man for a VPN access code he writes on a crumbled sheet of paper
we will live in a content rich p2p utopia once effective distributed administration has evolved sufficiently
it will be an alternate internet run from our homes
it’s gonna be beautiful
Is this what smoking weed does to ones thinking?
Maybe I should try
It will be horrible.
There will be more and more people (like me) searching for things like lemmy and Gophernet and IRC to avoid corponet. Normies will wallow on the 3 corporate websites like they’ve been doing for 10 years.
Its already borderline unusable even with proper tools (waterfox, ublock, searxng/kagi are a MUST)
Truly, the good days of the internet are gone and will only come back in underground form.
Can you tell me what Waterfox is? I’m not informed :(
Better version of firefox!
I have not actually made the switch yet but its supposed to be a fork of firefox thats not controlled by Mozilla. Someone correct me if wrong.
More and more apps messing things up. Companies want you to use an app so they have more access to data and better ability to control your habits driving more money into their coffers.
More radicalization and sensationalization of everything. Use the news as an example. It used to be straight reporting of what happened, now it’s about ratings and how many descriptive words you can use to make the news more dramatic.
Advertising will get worse, more ads, larger ads, more annoying ads.
There will be a bigger divide between the corporate conglomerate internet and the decentralized internet. People who feel marginalized will begin to break away and and the rest of the internet will look at them like they are crazy.
Like mortal engines. Islands of small functional communities amidst a wasteland of AI generated content, occasionally having to scatter and reform elsewhere when the corps find them and attempt to Embrace, Extend, Extinguish (or just DOS with content scrapers) them.
People being critisized is the least of the internets’ problems at the moment. Hopefully there’ll be a sucessful backlash against all the ai and the algorithms and the corporatization and the censorship (actual censorship, not “people getting offended”) soon or else all that will be left is advertising.
I think it will be fully controlled by Shitler and the turd Reich and it will spin extremist far right propaganda that is approved by the party. It will be the only information allowed. Palantir is currently creating a file on every citizen. By then Everyone that steps out of line will already have been thrown into a concentration camp or killed.
It’ll be more corporate than it is now, and the real community, art, culture, connections will happen offline for the relative minority of us that aren’t on board.
Stratification between the corporate and the free world.
On one side, you have bots, bots, and more bots. Enshittification running rampant. AOL-style locked-down platforms, but worse, because they steal your data and your soul to fuel their profits.
On the other side of the fence is the side of freedom. The fediverse will have more users. Also, old-style personal websites/blogs could make a comeback.
we’re already seeing a division, between pubnet, darknet, tor, and I2P. I think we’re going to see tor support drop for I2P and it become the new freenet that doesn’t have all the corpo bullshit on it.
