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What's a current or growing trend only you seem to have concerns about? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I've definitely turned into the paranoid nutcase within my friend group in recent years, I hate that everything is "smart" nowadays requiring an app/internet connection & account, just to do basic things that didn't require any of that before.

What's some things currently making you ramble like an old man?

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[–] [email protected] 85 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

The centralisation of all web browsing in the hands of a handful of aggregated front ends that basically monopolise on content provided by other people. Goodbye websites and independent communities.

Hello auto generated websites that exist to push ads and optimise SEO.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

waves lemmy flag

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

squints in to the depths of the internet at the fractional population of Lemmy

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

Yeah... Yeah. I always feel kinda hopeless about this stuff because I'm not the sort of person that has the social clout to migrate my communities onto platforms.