We tracked the organic search traffic of CNET, Wired, The Verge, TechRadar, and six others from early 2024 to today. Combined, they’ve lost 65 million monthly visits. Some lost over 90%.
We tracked the organic search traffic of CNET, Wired, The Verge, TechRadar, and six others from early 2024 to today. Combined, they’ve lost 65 million monthly visits. Some lost over 90%.
Content is so bad nowadays. Sites are overloaded with ads, paywalls, subscriptions.
And a lot of it is clearly AI generated
I think most of it. Internet is dead.
Internet has been on last breathe since few companies started controlling the internet discourse since 2010s.
Fediverse is, i think, adding a new life back. Forums are back, microblogging your mind without being censored by laws of a few countries is back. Static blogs are making a comeback. I don’t care how big, small or popular these instances are, they are lively as ever.
Here, you are no longer under whims of Facebook, Xitter, Google, Tumblr, or Reddit. If an instance bans you, just move your data to another. You may not be able to escape them entirely but there are more options than there’s ever been.
You can be a doomer all you want. For me, internet is rejuvenating without the control of few companies and countries. Yesz there’s slop everywhere, there are also gems if you find them.
The anti-AI sentiment here is proof Internet is not dead or we’d be getting told you’re crazy if you don’t just accept it because shareholders said so. That’s not the case yet.
I don’t even mind subscribing to 404media, as I feel like their operation makes sense. But there’s no way I’m going to pay to read some sponsored content on a page riddled with trackers.