After the cancellation of face-to-face couples, the amount of time I spend on the Internet has increased significantly. Pretty soon I found myself in endless scrolling through feeds, and in the best tradition of procrastination, instead of getting busy, I decided to clean up my internet room.
To get rid of the need to take turns flipping through a bunch of sites, people came up with RSS. The current state of RSS can be called satisfactory, the main problem is that the support varies from site to site, but there is a tooling for creating RSS feeds from "raw" sites.
After an hour of setting up newsboat, I realized that the main functionality of RSS readers has been in VK for several years, but there is no incentive to use it.
It was better
They say that the internet used to be different, and I can agree with that. My first memories of the Internet are megabyte access cards, IE as the dominant browser in the market and Rambler as the default search engine.
My first memories of VK are flash games , endpoints ending in .php
, golden stripes under the avatars, one-line JS scripts to get free votes, and a link to the profile of the tracker on the audio search page. For me, for many years, the Internet in its romantic sense was exactly VK, where you could find interesting people, follow their work, or just indulge in endless wandering in search of something new.
As a consequence of the continued monopolization of the Internet by a handful of private companies, public opinion about social networks has shifted to a negative direction, but still the majority continue to use them, and I cannot blame them (myself) for anything. If you ignore the addictive aspects, then these are quite convenient tools for communication, creating and viewing content. And all that superservices still offer today.
But let's be honest: it will not be possible to completely avoid behavioral manipulation on the modern Internet, which sooner or later affects mental health. One of the ways to "detox the Internet" is to abandon endless algorithmic feeds, which are replaced with finite, manually collected by the user thematic feeds.
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