Jack Dorsey regrets ruining the internet
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Right?
And he's not wrong. But in general, I think the best time of the internet was probably slightly before Reddit, or just after Reddit started. Before the astroturfing hit full tilt and before the manipulation of the people became so obvious, when we could search for information we wanted without being delivered an agenda or flooded with information by existing.
We can see the influences even here; an insatiable addiction to the flow of information, to the point where we spend potentially hours of our day reading and discussing when we could be doing something else.
Kinda curious if people think the shilling was as strong on platforms like /. or Dig. My first exposure to aggregate sites was with reddit and having an office job at the time meant I was all in for the depth of things available on it. /. had a karma system that kept most top level comments pretty useful but that's about all I remember from my time on it.