[twelfthnight]

Just want to point out the obvious: if the Internet was _all_ fake, then this post would also be fake and trying to get something from you.

The reality is the Internet isn't all fake, but lots is so you have to use your brain to not get suckered in, and accept sometimes you probably still will. Overall it's still a good thing, but just not as good as it used to be when there were fewer people and the nasty people hadn't caught up with how to trick you.

[bryanlarsen]

But it's a case of "One bad apple spoils the lot". Even if every other apple in the bushel is good now, they've now all been exposed to too much ethylene and you have to either immediately turn them all into sauce or throw them away.

[raydev]

Or that's a bad analogy and you just have to look harder for the good apples, which don't get spoiled.

The internet certainly doesn't feel fake to me yet. There's more stuff I don't care about and people trying to sell me things than there was 20 years ago, but my internal ruleset for deciding whether I value what I'm reading/watching is so strong that I don't really put any thought into it.

[mejutoco]

I think Google became altavista and spam is too easy. Maybe sth like kagi can mitigate it.

[joquarky]

At least Altavista had a robust set of Boolean operators that actually worked as documented.

[yowzadave]

The problem is, the algorithm that originally worked really well for Google (PageRank) ultimately contributed to turning the internet into SEO spam. How do you extract signal from noise in a way that doesn’t immediately make the noise problem worse?

[mejutoco]

- rank sites without ads higher

- Allow the users to blacklist domains (pinterest)