[krapp]

People believe the internet is dead despite there being vastly more of everything on the internet now.

People believe music, movies and video are dead despite services like Soundcloud and Youtube.

People believe game devlopment is dead despite the explosion (in both quality and quantity) of indie gaming.

People believe movies are dead despite Netflix and streaming.

People still talk about television, theaters and newspapers as if they were relevant.

The quality of everything is going up, but everything is shit now.

I really am starting to wonder if Hacker News is just where old hackers go to yell at clouds.

[antifa]

> The quality of everything is going up, but everything is shit now.

I think this is wrong. The average quality of everything is plummeting. Markets across the board are being flooded with shit.

But there are some strongholds out there resisting this race to the bottom, and there are soulful indie projects that weren't possible before.

If you were capable of producing something that wasn't shit, it's generally easier. But it's also easier for everyone to flood the market with shit.

The rough is expanding faster than the diamonds.

[jdrc]

for each art form you mentioned 1 or 2 competitors with practically the same content. that's what people are talking about, lack of differentiation, not lack of access. And while there is 'everything' from the past on the internet, we re talking about what is being created now. Indie gaming sounds like an interesting new cohort for diverse content, but i still think most games are interchangeable, and even look the same because they use the same game engines.

> television, theaters and newspapers

in comparison, those had not consolidated into 1 or 2 brands, there were thousands of them worldwide and that matters, because it allowed obscure sub-cultures, which are the spices that then find their way into the global soup of western culture. Subcultures need a bubble to evolve in.