Is the Good Old Interweb Already Dying, or Is There Any Chance of Survival?

OK, a few mandatory words of preface, as usual.
Today, for some reason, I’m in the mood to discuss things in a podcast-style, but only in text.

Why is this happening? I can easily tell you:
it’s because you’re probably on the weirdest resource on the whole internet, where technology, creative things and rants meet in one place and merge into something unusually interesting.

Like it or not, it doesn’t matter whether you’ve been inserted into your job by your mom/dad/relative and you’re a golden boy/girl who doesn’t do a thing at work for a hefty salary, or you’ve paved your own way, working hard beyond your real capabilities until your eyes/ears bleed, earning pennies.
You will all be replaced by AI sooner or later.

This is inevitable, and it won’t happen for the sake of some kind of hypothetical efficiency. It will happen so the rich can get even richer. That’s one of the essential cruelties of the world, and we can’t do anything about it, because this tradition has lasted for many generations and can’t be retired easily, at least not by humane methods.

Moreover, your whole life is worth nothing. Whether you have a family with a neat wife and cute kids or you’re a lonely loner on the road, no matter what you do or what you’ve got behind you, you will be completely forgotten in, say 100-150 years. So let’s talk about something more important than human lives.

Now that I’ve lowered the bar of your self-confidence, we can continue. This was done to increase your perception, so you can understand the situation better.

Even though I consider people useless in 98% of all cases, I still have to admit that humanity [a tiny fraction of it] has invented things like computer technology and, of course, the big old interwebs, which are degrading faster than you may think. That will be the main topic of today’s note.

So how come mankind’s greatest achievement, the internet,
has become such a mess nowadays?

Regarding the 2nd bullet point: a good example is Reddit’s recent desire to lock its content away from users who aren’t logged in. That’s probably why their stock dropped by 30%. Frankly speaking, I haven’t given a sh#t about this platform for a year or so. And yeah, even their Windows 7 community sucks. Not worth a dime.

As for governments, especially autocratic ones, they substantially slow down and degrade network infrastructure by installing loads of DPI proxy analyzers, bought with your taxes, to restrict what you can view and how. For their own benefit, of course.

So, as you can see, the "big" people are doing whatever it takes to poison the internet and alter it to their own liking. It's not a free thing anymore; it's already transforming into something resembling television, which in terms of usefulness is already dead.

But at the end of the day, if you’re an experienced user, you can surely clean out all the gunk and find quite good information buried under loads of political propaganda, AI slop and various so-called information noise. Though it will become a much harder task day by day.