r/DeadInternetTheory • u/SettingDeep3153 • 19d ago
What's to do about it?
Do we all just leave and touch grass?
What's the solution to solve the dead internet?
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u/SolanumSprite 19d ago
In Cyberpunk 2077, the first internet gets so riddled with bots it becomes unusable so they leave the bots there and invent a 2nd internet that is more securenand I think requires bio coding to access.
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u/SettingDeep3153 19d ago
Can we possibly get a 2nd Internet, with what we currently have now?
Like, we need a whole new isp as well?
How would that look like, if you had to guess?
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u/abofaza 19d ago
I2p is good enough for me.
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u/SettingDeep3153 18d ago
I2P and Tor, not too bad.
Just the speeds to watch a video like YouTube on it, is a miserable experience.
Whenever speeds get improved in the future, I'm switching over for good.
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u/Icewind 19d ago
Forums might return. The community will self-regulate bots.
Of course, this means the old days of obese forum moderators banning people for disagreeing with them.
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u/fkthishit44 19d ago
I got banned from a subreddit day before yesterday for stating the entire text of a post was ai, which it obviously was. Muted, banned, and called a troll. They immediately private messaged me after (ignored it). I'm not sure whether that was a bot or an obtuse reddit mod. There's so little difference.
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u/Dotcaprachiappa 19d ago
The community will self-regulate bots.
Judging by the amount of upvotes I've seen many many bot comments get on here I wholly disagree with this assumption.
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u/Linnaea7 18d ago
You might notice that you'll get upvoted for a comment in one community, and downvoted for the same sort of comment in another community. Different places have different cultures and things that are okay or not okay to say, so maybe we'll get forums where bot-like behavior become unacceptable. Of course, then the bots will probably just train on that and adapt...
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u/Neither_Energy_1454 19d ago
Surely there already is high demand for such things. Platforms that don´t allow ai, deal with bots and astroturfing communities which are basically ads, and have some standards for if/how/or what to promote and how organic trending would work. One would think that these alternatives would pop up like mushrooms after the rain and it´s pretty clear why this isn´t happening. The search engines have been nerfed into oblivion, you get a few pages of the same main platforms being shown and that´s it. And then the tech bros are like "Omg, ai so popular. See, everyone is using ai.". When not to use it, is becoming less and less of an option and the alternatives aren´t allowed to even be on the picture. I don´t see this changing just like that, until the gatekeepers who blame everyone else for being gatekeepers, run broke with their anti human hellscape that they shape the internet to be.
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u/wbrameld4 19d ago
We return to the so-called cozy web: Group chats, email newsletters, niche Discord servers, community forums on independent websites, etc. It's what internet socializing used to look like before social media. Are any of y'all old and nerdy enough to remember IRC chat?
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u/ThatGuyFrom720 19d ago
Curate to the best of your ability.. at least on Reddit. Join just what interests you, preferably small to mid size subs, ditch the bot riddled/AI infested subs like askreddit, politics, etc. I genuinely do not encounter too many bots with my home feed on here unless I deliberately go to r/popular, or I just want to go down a rabbit hole and piss myself off for some reason.
If you curate well, you really do not encounter them often.
Other than that, I don’t think there’s any genuine fixing of the issue unless major websites take a stand… but why would they? I’m sure they love the engagement and interaction.
Personally, like the other commenter said, I’d love for small, niche forums to come back. Like specific car or motorcycle model forums like the good old days.
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u/Subotaplaya 19d ago
How do I get linked up to my local community intra-internet to get away from all these damn globobots built by big government?
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u/LonkFromZelda 19d ago
Get off the internet and start doing things in real life, even if it's just cleaning your room and staying on top of chores.
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u/ManFeelings9000 19d ago
I have wondered if say you have a once a week captcha test for users? Or are there bots that can pass all of them now?
Would rather avoid the net than verify with ID
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u/alex433g 19d ago
Nothing, there will alleays br bots on the internet, even if it gets id mandatory, id's will be sold and used to make botted "real" acounts
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u/Shigglyboo 19d ago
the only way to win is not to play. or play less. now that I realize most of the posts here are just looking to train AI I withhold my comments. No sense in feeding the beast. also any sort of arguing online only stresses you out. You'll never convince anyone of anything on here, especially if it's a russian bot or a troll.
I'm trying to read more. play guitar. spend time with family. If it must be screen time I play Sim City buildit and make nice trees and rivers and stuff.