that diminish sales to the point where it's not worth it, and delivers junk to your mailbox that you never should have bought.

and when I received it, the seller had included a sheet complaining about eBay fees driving prices up, and directing me to their website for lower prices.

I appreciate it.

If you stream programming, you're using the internet.

Or like me they read the entire internet during lockdown. Hee.

Also, less to rant about here cuz... Joe is pretty solid. So, maybe it’s healthy if indeed it’s lighter.

But obviously idk. Guess we need stats to see if it’s indeed in decline.

Dying? You have to be joking.

What's dying is cable TV, since folks figured out how to use STREAMING for all of television broadcasting, movie rentals, and sports. That's how it is. If anything, it's growing by leaps and bounds. A big part of "infrastructure" is upgrading the internet grid BECAUSE the physical components are reaching their limits of operational efficiency.

As soon as global warming gets bad enough and civilization collapses, it's definitely the end of the Internet. It will be just like Homo Sapiens; brief blip in the history of the planet.

What in the world would you think would replace the internet? Different specific websites or companies might go away, but the internet as a whole?

While I'm glad of the breadth of knowledge and expertise I've gained, it's been costly in time and money. But I guess I'll have to live with it.

highly manipulative AstroTurf and bot generated comments and posts. The big dominate sites have been forced to remove this kind of traffic in particular for misinformation about the Big Lie and COVID, such as facebook, twitter, reddit and even those news provider sites with large comment content such as thehill, politico, WaPo.
But yes I also agree, there is a lot of disillusionment with any purpose for posting and participating, burn out.

In other words I see less of the constantly repeated conservative talking point lies and and what used to look to me like posts to make liberals and progressives seem as stupid and uninformed as the conservatives. By that I mean the posts that aren't liberal or progressive ideas but match the talking point attacks about who and what a progressive or liberal is.