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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. (self.showerthoughts)
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[–] LordWiggle 29 points 10 months ago (3 children)

It was meant for porn en now the biggest part of it is porn. I'd say a success.

[–] DandomRude 14 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

As far a I know the porn industry has actualy driven innovation in various web-technologies including streaming, e-commerce, VR...and now probably AI, I guess.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 10 months ago

We should put porn on climate change

[–] [email protected] 9 points 10 months ago (1 children)

The Internet is really really great 🎶

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago

I've got a fast connection so I don't have to wait 🎶

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I don't think the biggest part of the internet is porn. There's a LOT of porn and a few really big porn sites, but I don't think they hold a candle to social media and shopping.

I found this link that has porn being #s 14 and 15. It was actually hard to find recent data that included porn at all. I think some counters were too embarrassed to admit porn existed.

[–] LordWiggle 3 points 10 months ago

Those are just the biggest sites. Also 12 is a porn site. But it doesn't say anything about the size of the total porn on the web. Like, amount of sites and content. Estimates are roughly 80% of the entire internet is porn.