/technology/ - Technology

Yes, it's 1000% over

>>1398 (OP)
Free as in what? Piracy hasn't been abolished and plenty of places allow you to spend day/night uttering racial slurs to your heart's content.

>>1405
The problem is that 99% of the traffic is concentrated on a handful of apps so they're much easier to control

We will never have the same unregulated, whimsical, feral, and savage Internet of the past. That which was akin to the Wild West.
It's all being turned into a gated community with every home having 100s of ways to sneak in and harvest your information — PERFECTLY LEGALLY mind you. And if you refuse, you're some sort of political miscreant at best or a hostile to the state and actively sodomized on the legal and financial basis

>>1549
Yeah the golden age of the internet is over. I miss the days when we had communities where we could simply be left alone

>>1554
Hermit Goals:

Live in a cabin on a plot of land
Run a private/semi gated online community only for frens
Sometimes do things with frens irl
???
Profit :D

>>1555
That's the dream, a sense of community online AND in real life lmao

>>1558
Maybe with a woman to love down the line too haha

>>1565
Wow, I almost don't feel worthy of dreaming about that

>>1406
This is why you should make your software open-source.