7 years. 7.

net nutrality dies

nothing happens

net nutrality is restored

nothing will happen

@mischievoustomato @kirby I've been utterly confused at this one

@coolboymew @mischievoustomato @kirby Basically without net neutrality it would mean that ISP would be legally allowed to charge you for anything, for example, "oh we see you're using the torrent protocol quite often, instead of 50KB/ps we propose you to pay X$ more on your subscription to unlock the potential maximum speed" and they can do that for anything.

People will tell you that "nothing happened" of course nothing happened they know that if they do such a sudden shit everywhere everyone will get furious, the only way to do this is to change things progressively, like with what happened with smartphones, it took time but almost everyone has one now, and thus from that point they can start to mandate progressively bullshit stuff like QR codes for everything etc..

@mangeurdenuage @mischievoustomato @coolboymew a comment that stuck out to me in the reddit thread was in response to "I never noticed anything"

"You haven't noticed how the Internet is consolidating under the major tech companies and how there are hardly any new websites published by smaller entities?"

I laughed a bit at first but then realized it was sort of true.

@kirby @mischievoustomato @mangeurdenuage that's kind of unrelated though

But just the other day I was complaining there's no WYSIWYG web editor anymore that should have evolved in the last 10 years to make this even easier on newbies. Now there's nothing but very outdated software

I remember leading how HTML worked back in middle/high school using the editor that came with Netscape Communicator. There are a lot of services like Square, but they all really suck ass. Drag and drop component design for the Web is either going to be horrifically complicated or horrifically bloated.

@djsumdog @mischievoustomato @coolboymew @mangeurdenuage just look at wix it looks like hot garbage for people not on chrome or firefox