I've definitely turned into the paranoid nutcase within my friend group in recent years, I hate that everything is "smart" nowadays requiring an app/internet connection & account, just to do basic things that didn't require any of that before.
What's some things currently making you ramble like an old man?
The centralisation of all web browsing in the hands of a handful of aggregated front ends that basically monopolise on content provided by other people. Goodbye websites and independent communities.
Hello auto generated websites that exist to push ads and optimise SEO.
waves lemmy flag
squints in to the depths of the internet at the fractional population of Lemmy
Yeah... Yeah. I always feel kinda hopeless about this stuff because I'm not the sort of person that has the social clout to migrate my communities onto platforms.