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[-] erenkoylu@lemmy.ml 26 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Internet was fine in the early 2000s before the rise of social media platforms resulted in surveillance advertisement complex.

It was a different place, but worked ok.

[-] dan@upvote.au 9 points 10 months ago

Sounds like you're forgetting about the dot com bubble. The internet wasn't fine abck then because nobody really had a sustainable business model.

[-] LWD@lemm.ee 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 1 month ago)
[-] dan@upvote.au 3 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

The reason I mentioned the dot com bubble is because a lot of the companies back then failed because they couldn't figure out a sustainable business model. It was mostly hype-driven with the idea of getting users first, then figuring out monetization later.

That's why we have ad-supported sites today. It was the main business model that was the most sustainable.

There were a lot of small sites, sure, but a lot of them were hosted on services with no real business model. Even back then, not a lot of people self-hosted.

[-] LWD@lemm.ee 0 points 10 months ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

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[-] BearOfaTime@lemm.ee 3 points 10 months ago

Surveillance advertisement was already around.

Social Media platforms simply capitalized on it.

And users sucked it up for "convenience".

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