Comment by imaginationra

Back then it felt like people were trying to be useful and to make things/places that were useful in some way to other people.

Now it feels like people are making things/places mostly to use other people- they stopped viewing people online as "people"- now people are "data" to be "monetized"

The various art forms/entertainment has also become "content" to be "monetized"

All of this has made the modern internet very cold and boring- everything has been corporatized.

* It's a tiny and obscure thing but jumping into and chatting with people in Hyperfy(https://hyperfy.io/) worlds feels very much like early internet as you often chat with the builder of the world who is into some non-normie thing.

* Hyperfy v2 is now open source btw https://github.com/hyperfy-xyz/hyperfy