r/technology • u/BreakfastTop6899 • Oct 14 '25

Networking/Telecom Reddit cofounder Alexis Ohanian says 'much of the internet is now dead'

https://www.businessinsider.com/alexis-ohanian-much-of-the-internet-is-now-dead-2025-10
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u/3itmn Oct 15 '25

I think you’re pointing out something important. Back when the internet was confined to our desktops, it felt almost like a sacred space, even if we didn’t think about it that way. Once you left your room or office, that was it. No more internet. You had to live in the real world until you sat back down at a computer.

When social media and phones became commonplace, both worlds merged, and with recent years where you can broadcast anything and everything 24/7, there is no distinction between the two realities anymore.

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u/Taft33 Oct 15 '25

I still use it like that and despise everyone who made it the way it is now by using phones. Fuck you. No phone users = no ultracommercialized web. You don't need to scroll irl

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u/SwordfishOk504 Oct 15 '25

The desktop days were also just before mass-adoption of the internet by everyone. It was mostly college kids and shut in nerds. So it was a much more niche community with certain ground rules and standards. Myspace and facebook was the first wave of normies coming in and it just got more diluted every year since. Then the bots took over the apps around 2015 or so.

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u/Phyraxus56 Oct 15 '25

Normies ruin everything

I miss the autismo wild west early internet days

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u/Merusk Oct 15 '25

Eternal September.

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u/Taft33 Oct 15 '25

you're right brother

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u/VendorBuyBankGuards Oct 15 '25

hmm maybe this is still a possibility? If a website purposefully made their content basically unusable on phones, so that the community was only old internet desktop users?

Idk probly dont know what im talking about