• erenkoylu@lemmy.ml
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    9 months ago

    Internet was fine in the early 2000s before the rise of social media platforms resulted in surveillance advertisement complex.

    It was a different place, but worked ok.

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      9 months ago

      Sounds like you’re forgetting about the dot com bubble. The internet wasn’t fine abck then because nobody really had a sustainable business model.

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          9 months ago

          The reason I mentioned the dot com bubble is because a lot of the companies back then failed because they couldn’t figure out a sustainable business model. It was mostly hype-driven with the idea of getting users first, then figuring out monetization later.

          That’s why we have ad-supported sites today. It was the main business model that was the most sustainable.

          There were a lot of small sites, sure, but a lot of them were hosted on services with no real business model. Even back then, not a lot of people self-hosted.

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      9 months ago

      Surveillance advertisement was already around.

      Social Media platforms simply capitalized on it.

      And users sucked it up for “convenience”.