Or is it just doomed to the vapidity of sterile commercialization?

It feels like everything is serious these days… and ‘humor’ is only of the commercial variety. Joke communities and circlejerk communities are considered ‘hate groups’ now. Mods will ban you for sarcastic comments on ‘serious’ topics, and even on non serious ones, and everything is politicized either by trolls, bots, or whackjobs.

It’s boring when you can’t joke anymore. I miss my internet communities of 5-10 years ago when you could joke around, and even people of different beliefs and persuasions could laugh at themselves.

Now everything is so deadly serious. It’s a complete bummer. And any sort of ‘edge’ or sarcasm or sardonic remarks are ban-worthy.

I guess it’s just poe’s law run amok? I feel like mods could tell the difference 10 years ago and the non-jokey psychos were just ignored.

  • Hal-5700X@sh.itjust.works
    51·
    1 month ago

    Corporations, governments and very political users has sterilize the Internet. You can’t be edgy/tell edgy jokes without being called racist, sexist and so on. Also the Internet is being walled garden by said parties. Due them closing down sites. By removing the ways the sites can keep themselves going, like cutting off payment processing companies. If the mob cries or/and screams hard enough. They can remove you and web sites from the net. Look what happened to Kiwi Farms. Cloudflare had Kiwi Farms back. But the mob cried, so Cloudflare dropped Kiwi Farms.

    Can the Internet ever be fun again? Will, it’s going to be hard to go back to the old Internet. Look at who we are fight against. Can it be done? Yes, but it’s going extremely hard.

    • ℕ𝕖𝕞𝕠@midwest.social
      62·
      1 month ago

      You can be edgy and not be called racist. What you can’t be is racist and not be called racist, and I think that’s a good thing.

    • PhlubbaDubba@lemm.ee
      42·
      1 month ago

      Bro the statement you link literally points out that the site’s users started conspiring to do crimes against the people running the pressure campaign.

      • Hal-5700X@sh.itjust.works
        41·
        1 month ago

        Where’s the proof?

        EDIT So people are for an company who removed DDoS protection for a web site without proof of wrong doing. Just because a mob of people cried and screamed about said site. Really? That’s just sad.