most people are boring/normal by definition and the internet is now mainstream. The internet used to be filled with a pretty weird subset of the general population but now that is drowned out by the masses. The old school internet still exists to some degree but you are going to have to look harder to find where the weird people are at and most the people claiming they want the "weird" internet back would probably complain about those places
same thing happens in any community/society as it ages and grows. People who create it are different from those who move in later once things are great
> most people are boring/normal by definition and the internet is now mainstream. The internet used to be filled with a pretty weird subset of the general population but now that is drowned out by the masses.
That doesn't explain MySpace, though. Extremely mainstream/mass-oriented, but still fun and weird, while it lasted.
Exactly; it was novel not weird. And if it had prevailed over FB it would have adopted a slicker, uniform ui by default sooner or later (maybe let old heads keep seeing version 1 like Reddit does).
Eventually it got to the point where comments on people's pages were making them unreadable or crashing the browser. That was too much customizability.
same thing happens in any community/society as it ages and grows. People who create it are different from those who move in later once things are great