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Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam :prami:"):
nev@status.nevillepark.ca ("Neville Park") wrote:
re: @anildash's article about OpenAI's webpageless "browser": I feel this is the natural evolution of the "web". people are all like "bring back the old web" about the old days of open standards and smaller communities and handmade websites and all that, but you know what's really the essence of the web? MOTHERFUCKING HYPERLINKS. and those have been disappearing and VERY FEW PEOPLE CARE.
thanks to walled gardens and "apps" it's easier for most people to post a screenshot of another site than actually link to it, apparently. thanks to Google's info cards and now "AI" "summary", people don't even have to visit a page to get an answer. "according to google…" WHICH WEBSITE, MOTHERFUCKER. IT ACTUALLY MAKES A DIFFERENCE.
thoughts, facts, news become sourceless, non-updated, decontextualized, undated images, slowly decaying as they get copied and re-uploaded again and again. a copy of a copy of a copy. is that photo of a massive protest from last weekend or 5 years ago? did the author of that article later update saying "whoops, I was totally wrong"? who wrote this insightful post? who knows? who cares!
yeah yeah i rant about this all the time i don't care im still mad