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A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The best ones are thoughts that many people can relate to and they find something funny or interesting in regular stuff.

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Today's web is the opposite of what early Internet utopians had in mind. Now the situation is somewhat similar to climate change: even committed activists can no longer turn the tide for the better. (lemmy.world)

submitted 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) by DandomRude@lemmy.world to c/showerthoughts@lemmy.world

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[–] DandomRude@lemmy.world 4 points 10 months ago

At the time, the Internet was also a hope to break the power of the extremely powerful print media (not originally Tim Berners-Lee's intention, but that was the idea of most early Internet utopians). In theory this still works today, but in practice I think it has gotten even worse: Opinions can probably even be spread more cheaply today by well-funded think tanks via a few, all the more powerful players - a prominent example is Facebook/Meta's collaboration with Cambridge Analytica. That's probably the reason why Elon Musk bought Twitter.