[davidhyde]

There is nothing wrong with the internet. It is operating as intended, completely out of control like it should be. Big corp has created an easy mode (which is criticised in tweets like this) but the all the interesting stuff is still there. And a lot more of it now too. You’ve always had to actively look for stuff instead of expecting it to come to you.

[JohnFen]

I hear people say this, but I'm not terribly convinced. At the very least, the interesting stuff is harder to find than ever before. It sure does seem like there's less of it than ever to me, but that might be because it's hiding better?

[kazinator]

Maybe that's because the search engines come from the purveyors of the easy stuff, not the purveyors of the interesting stuff.

Interesting stuff is infinitely fragmented, also.

I like my interesting stuff, and other people's interesting stuff is ... uninteresting.

If the difficulty of finding interesting stuff is D, but I'm actually only interested in 0.1% of the interesting stuff, then the difficulty I perceive is 1000D.

[kazinator]

Big corp also created tons of bandwidth to support easy mode (and video streaming), which the other stuff benefits from!

[pupppet]

Except our gatekeeper to everything, Google, decides what we see and it’s not necessarily what we want to see.