Why isn't the internet more fun and weird?

Lots of the internet is fun and weird. https://pouet.net is the unofficial home of the demoscene, even though it's much weirder than the demoscene itself. https://dwitter.net needs no comment Stack Overflow has answers like: https://stackoverflow.com/a/1732454 Half of tumblr is totally out there. I personally wouldn't call 4chan and its relatives fun, but they sure are weird. There's dedicated, active, shitty phpbb forums for every single weird sexual fetish you can imagine. And that's just the fun and weird…

I remember the thousands of interesting and weird pages listed on StumbleUpon - directories of obscure topics, avant garde art projects and detailed field specific blogs - many of them both pretty and thoroughly made. Mind expanding stuff. I feel like today all of that has moved to silos like tiktok and instagram, in extreme short form formats that are easily disposable - so almost no one creates truly great "compilations" of stuff, directories, blogs, galleries or whatever - it's…

The internet is more fun and more weird than it ever has been. There are entire genres of fun and weird spawned from the modern internet that could never have been imagined on the old web. The modern web gives us unfiction and multidimensional fandoms and niche fandom and remix fandoms and the A E S T H E T I C. People are making their own music, their own art, their own movies, sharing their passions, opening windows to…

> We — the programmers, designers, product people — collectively decided that users don't deserve the right to code in everyday products. Users are too stupid. They'd break stuff. Coding is too complicated for ordinary people. Besides, we can just do the coding...so why does it matter? I've always thought of it more as "I want to limit what someone can do, so that I can be sure I've prevented them from doing something malicious". A lot of effort in…