People don't care, that's true. Most people just want to see funny memes and videos, they don't think too hard about it. Not saying that's good, in fact I'd say the opposite.
Here we are on HN, which is not, itself, user hostile. And there's Metafilter, which is still hanging in there, a bastion of the old internet.
But I get the sense that many have retreated off the open internet, into private communities. I've been running one for 7 years or so. Safer there, and you can actually have conversations with people. In a way, this is the digital equivalent of how the real world works: the thing which isn't natural is trying to talk to people across a massive crowd, while other people shout advertisements at you, and still others record everything you say.
These bigger link aggregators like Reddit have become a way to see new links, grab them in a net, and run back to the private community to discuss them.
Here we are on HN, which is not, itself, user hostile. And there's Metafilter, which is still hanging in there, a bastion of the old internet.
But I get the sense that many have retreated off the open internet, into private communities. I've been running one for 7 years or so. Safer there, and you can actually have conversations with people. In a way, this is the digital equivalent of how the real world works: the thing which isn't natural is trying to talk to people across a massive crowd, while other people shout advertisements at you, and still others record everything you say.
These bigger link aggregators like Reddit have become a way to see new links, grab them in a net, and run back to the private community to discuss them.