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"The "Dead Internet Theory" is a concept suggesting that the internet has largely been abandoned by humans and replaced by non-human activity. It posits that most online content, interactions, and engagement metrics are driven by bots, algorithms, and artificial intelligence, creating the illusion of a vibrant, human-driven web."

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[–] Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world 74 points 6 days ago (23 children)

This really depends on scale. If you look at all accounts and activity online, there probably is enough bots to outnumber people.

Personally, I don't interact with THE WHOLE INTERNET. I interact with people I know, and Lemmy, which feels more human than other platforms, so I'm confident that most of my online interactions are with actual humans.

[–] Orioniae@piefed.social 6 points 5 days ago (2 children)

My theory (very bad) is that the fediverse is the prelude of an internet so decentralized it will stop being useful to corporations.

The “upper web” will be corporate, ads, marketing and paid services. The “lower web” will be a series of semi connected networks that will loosely operate as a whole.

Maybe in 10~20 years, a physical new internet will be born, completely independent from the current one and untouched by companies.

[–] Fmstrat@lemmy.world 2 points 5 days ago (1 children)

A new internet isn't even needed, just a new protocol.

Corpos aren't on Gopher or Gemini, for instance.

[–] forestbeasts@pawb.social 1 points 4 days ago (1 children)

We don't even need a new protocol. HTTP/1.1 is perfectly fine! I wish people would stop trying to throw it out.

-- Frost

[–] Fmstrat@lemmy.world 1 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Beyond the technical aspect, I don't see how this is feasible. There are few sites out there supporting just 1.1, and the population using HTTP won't likely create more. While those using alternatives continue to.

[–] forestbeasts@pawb.social 1 points 2 days ago

Eh? Doesn't pretty much everything support HTTP 1.1 still? It's not like it's dead.

And growing a community of HTTP 1.1 website people certainly isn't any harder than growing a community of alt-protocol website people. Even if it were an alt-protocol nothing normal supports anymore (which it isn't, thankfully).

That's not bad; that's prophetic...and is already happening.

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