does anyone else think the modern internet might die?

That’s the good future.

Not using the internet, just using phones to call people, going outside, soubds amazing!

On the other hand…,

The bad future:

People will just become more and more used to technology. Now with the Apple Vision Pro, in a few years having an AR headset will be a common thing, just how everyone has phones now. And AI will slowly become better and better and better.

I dont think the internet will EVER die

i'd like to think so, at least to some extent but i think it's too ingrained in people, especially younger generations. i'm not on tiktok but a lot of people my age are, and the way its designed is meant to be addictive and keep you scrolling and most other social media is the same (clock app is just the most egregious im0)

for something like that to happen, i think there'd need to be some kind of catalyst to actively cause it. in general these days i think most under 20s (hell probably even under 30s tbh) have had a pretty big shift in their brain chemistry. corporate internet got us chasing that dopamine like phone-eyed fiends. its a hard thing to break and it looks way different to net and game addiction in a pre-'08 world.

don't get me wrong i like the net, meeting and talking to new peeps and playing games with 'em and shit. i don't want it to go away completely. if anything i think what's most likely to happen (and kind of starting, just look where we are) is a rebellion against web 3.0 and corporate internet. moving back to forums, chat rooms, personalization and connection. not algorithmic bullshit, AI, and streamlined minimalistic corporate garbage.

just fuckin like...reject modernity dudes. be online but live your real self. don't follow trends, follow yourself and whats real. live on a net that's ours, not theirs ✌️

It's already dying... at least on the surface.

My views on AI are somewhat balanced. It can be a cool tool, but it shouldn't be abused.

Like? Do you blame the gun or the shooter? It's like that...

I use the internet to explore my hobbies, the things I like, to learn and to have a good time. Let's not be too pessimistic. We, the people, make the internet, not monopolistic companies.

Older people are just as addicted to certain content and applications as younger people. They're hypocritical...

Let's boycott as much as we can. Let's also be as cool as we can and reject TikiToko, Facecrap, Twatter, Shitgram and so on...

Though I do think the internet will not die, I do believe that the old internet we grew up on will never return. I believe we should try and make new sites that give us the nostalgia feel. I miss Myspace and old chats. 

noooooo i wanna live in my apple vision pro mansion with multiple safari windows all showing me youtube reaction videos, amazon, my 4 different monthly subscription streaming platforms, porn, and spotify, instagram reels, plus all the other things i need to interact with on a daily basis!!!

FWIW apparently even young people are sick of downloading endless rewards apps for everything and there’s a growing buzz over the return of physical media, even cassette tapes! I think everyone’s disgruntled by corporate internet and you might be right that the bubble will burst soon. We’ll see.

The fact that people are migrating to other websites that are'nt mainstream proves that people are sick of the modern internet. The only people who are using facebook are old people like my mom. And genuinely, why should I care if  people would rather rot away then live their life, that's their choice. I would rather join the people who think the same as me then blabbing to other people to join. And eventually they'll come around, like I thought I was the only person who's concerned about climate change, but I was surprised to see that Gen Z is really interested in it. And I was surprised that wearing vintage clothes and having old things became trending; like I was shocked. Oh and no one finds youtube shorts cool anymore. so yes I do believe that being chronically online will become cringe, but I also know that wont discourage the Incels, Facist, and AI bro's, cause they don't have a life. Ohhhh and also the Internet might be saved by these tech companies who are developing a way to detect AI generated images or AI tampered Images, cause it's really in demand especially with insurance companies. So yeah there's that, but yeah, in conclusion, We need to go back to creating our own corners of the internet and not let big corporations dictate what we see. Spacehey, Cara, and Groundnews, and tumblr, are apps and websites that people like us really trust, and we should do everything we can to keep these social platforms alive.

Also OpenAI is really struggling financially rn, so yeah that's somthing

Honestly, I hope old school personal websites and message boards make a comeback in the near future. We need to take back the internet as individuals and as a community of individuals from the hands of the big tech conglomerates who currently control it.

However, I'm trying not to set my hopes up too high for the future as my fantasy here could come plummeting down if the masses don't soon wake up and realize how enshittified the internet has become over the past decade or so.

I don't think it will ever 'die' per se, but I was thinking earlier today about how it might 'die' in its current iteration. With the overrun of AI and whatnot a lot of content is made by bots and being interacted with by bots, and I'd venture so far as to say the internet is nearly unrecognizable from what it was even like 5 or so years ago. I'm hoping at the very least that people catch on to this sort of enshittification and move to sites or places that focus less on clicks and interactions and other metrics for business people and more on creating and making things, similar to how the internet started out. The internet is the best tool ever made for enabling people to make things and learn, and I wish the focus were more on that. I really don't like the direction things have gone.

The internet may not die but being offline will become another trend, I believe. It will pass just as quick as the last trend and hopefully those that aren't so addicted with clicks learn that being offline is better than being chronically online. The internet is a tool and should always remain a tool, not a lifestyle.

I find for at least a lot of people my age (mid-20's) there is sort of a love-hate relationship going on. We become dependent on social media not just for interactions, but for some being a solo professional relies on the sort of social media that is falling apart and getting worse such now (see Twitter).

It's a dumpster fire that a lot of us got intertwined with. There are more and more people spending more time offline but I think there is still a feeling of "no other choice" because of the platforms already built elsewhere as well as where who you need to find are.

I personally got rid of most of my social media minus discord and Youtube. I just joined here and have a Neocities. That's about it. Social media was grating on my mental health - especially when you try to navigate it as a minority.

With all this, I do hope this is a beginning of an end. I would say remnants of this version of the web will still say but will cease to be the only major options that feel viable to more people.

As much as I'd love this, I don't think it's likely. If you poke around teacher communities online you'll see the almost devolution of students and how intense internet addiction is becoming (not just phones, but the good and bad of the internet). The biggest catalyst I can see is being over monetization of online spaces, rising costs of streaming services and god knows what else is coming, could cause more and more people to migrate back to IRL or at the very least reclaim the old internet.