• Peddlephile@lemm.ee
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    5 months ago

    Welcome to the new era of enshittification where you’ll eventually have to subscribe to access or make posts, and none of it will be searchable on any search engines.

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      5 months ago

      And the shoe will probably drop at some point. Something like “communities must have nitro to access posts from more than 6 months ago”.

    • Hoomod@lemmy.world
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      5 months ago

      Commenting/making posts has always required an account of some sort, at least as far back as I can remember. Maybe the IRC days you just needed a name

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        5 months ago

        With guestbooks - not always. They were full of spam, of course

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      5 months ago

      New?

      Anyway, I think all this is a result of thieves in governments becoming conscious of how the Web works and breaking it with the means they have - helping corps and making litigation more and more likely for anything small and well-behaving, because of failing to remove something etc.

      It just makes sense. In 2005 with all the problems with search engines of that time, and with having to use web directories and ask people, you had a lot of information at the tips of your fingers. You could read a lot of things about people who would prefer to do their stuff more confidentially, like mafia bosses and bureaucrats and politicians.