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harkdif • today at 4:41 PM • 1 reply • view on HN

While I agree a lot with this sentiment around the current slop fest that so much of the internet has become, I am oddly hopeful. I'm seeing across the internet, and especially in younger folks, a real push for a more organic, messy, human internet. The amount of "ugly", hand-coded vibes, basic sites I have come across in the last few months is 10x what was out there for a decade earlier. I think many people are nostalgic for the internet of the early 2000's. The random blog about whatever on tumblr or learning some HTML to build a rad geocities page. The internet has been getting fancier and more feature rich but also a shittier, less human experience for the last 10 years. My hope is that this slop mess pushes it over the edge and encourages the rise of a more messy, simple, human internet again.


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creata • today at 5:01 PM

> My hope is that this slop mess pushes it over the edge and encourages the rise of a more messy, simple, human internet again.

It's easier for me to imagine it getting ever bigger and and more complex and spawning ever more bubble universes like the ones you're talking about.